A new development in the ongoing saga of the IAS trainee Puja Khedkar has been provided: there is an indication that she may also have fraudulently obtained her MBBS admission.
According to reports, Chetan Santosh Khedkar came up on the rolls of Pune’s Kashibai Navale Medical College, having passed the MBBS admission test in 2007 under the OBC Nomadic Tribe-3 Vanjari Category. However, at that time, her father was a serving bureaucrat in Maharashtra, implying doubts about her right to the OBC non-creamy layer quota.
In particular, the medical college’s director, Arvind Bhore, has alleged that Khedkar provided the caste certificate, caste validity certificate, and non-creamy layer certificate to thereby gain admission. He also said she did not declare a disability in her medical fitness certificate.
This is so at a time when Khedkar was charged with alleged abuses of power and rules violations in her recent posting in Pune, where the post had demanded a separate Cabin and Staff. The matter has also led to questions concerning her Poss salah PERSONS WITH BENCHMARK DISABILITY (PwBD) certificate issued to her in August 2022.
Dilip Khedkar, Khedkar’s father and a retired bureaucrat, has come to vouch for his daughter’s disability certificate, which proves that she is visually impaired and suffers from a certain category of mental illness; the medical specialists have confirmed the findings.
The Pune Police have also impounded Khedkar’s Audi car as they continue investigating the allegations against her.
With the increasing severity of the case, a new issue that has emerged in the public eye is the credibility of Khedkar’s admission to MBBS, which forms another extension of the complicated case.
