NEW DELHI: Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, within the eye of a storm over the authenticity of her incapacity and OBC standing claims that bought her appointed to the civil providers, may face termination of service and even legal prices of forgery if the one-man panel set by the Centre to probe the matter finds any misrepresentation or suppression of details on her half.
Sources within the authorities mentioned the panel of DoPT further secretary Manoj Dwivedi will, over the following two weeks, probe how she obtained the paperwork establishing her incapacity and OBC standing, and whether or not correct vetting was carried out by the issuing authority.
Khedkar is alleged to have recurrently failed to seem for necessary medical assessments at AIIMS Delhi to verify her incapacity, regardless of having certified for IAS within the ‘Individuals with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD)’ class.
“The panel will submit its findings to DoPT which is able to then ahead the report with suggestions to the Maharashtra authorities, since she is allotted to the Maharashtra cadre. If discovered responsible of forging her OBC and incapacity papers, the state authorities may terminate her. Additionally, she could face legal legal responsibility for forgery and misrepresentation,” a supply mentioned.
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The DoPT panel wanting into Khedkar’s claims is more likely to take the assistance of social justice ministry to confirm her OBC standing. Though she claims to be from the economically weaker class, the affidavit filed by her father, an ex-bureaucrat and a candidate within the current Lok Sabha polls, declared his property at over Rs 40 crore. Khedkar was proven because the proprietor of flats and plots value crores.
The panel will, in session with specialists from AIIMS Delhi, additionally look at if the visible and psychological incapacity claimed by her meets the benchmarks for employment within the authorities.
A senior authorities functionary mentioned this was not the primary case of a civil providers aspirant making incorrect incapacity claims for choice within the PwBD class. “There are situations virtually yearly when these chosen on the premise of false incapacity claims have evaded the necessary medical take a look at at AIIMS Delhi and even escalated the matter to the Central Administrative Tribunal looking for testing elsewhere. Ultimately, nonetheless, they might not safe an appointment after having failed the take a look at,” the functionary instructed TOI.
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