Mother of former probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar gets bail in criminal intimidation case

Manorama Khedkar, mother of former probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar, was granted bail by a Pune court in criminal intimidation case on Friday.

The bail comes after Manorama completed 14 days in judicial custody after having served a four-day police custody. She was arrested from a lodge at Hirkaniwadi village near Mahad in Raigad district on July 18.

Police had launched a search for Manorama and her husband, Dilip Khedkar, after a video surfaced showing her allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute at Dhadwali village in Pune's Mulshi tehsil in 2023.


The police in Pune rural had booked the couple and five others under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder), 144 (unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon), 147 (rioting) and 506 (criminal intimidation) besides invoking the Arms Act.

Puja Khedkar has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing of OBC and disability quota benefits. She was denied anticipatory bail plea on Thursday.