NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Fee (UPSC) knowledgeable the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday that it’s going to talk inside two days its order cancelling former probationary Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Puja Khedkar’s candidature to her. Noting the submissions of UPSC, Justice Jyoti Singh disposed of Khedkar’s plea difficult the Fee’s press launch stating that her candidature has been dismissed.
“The petition is disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to method the suitable discussion board in accordance with regulation. It’s made clear that this court docket has neither entered into nor expressed any opinion on the deserves of the case and the submitting of the current petition is not going to are available in the way in which of the suitable discussion board in adjudicating the problem on deserves,” the court docket mentioned.
The court docket requested Khedkar to offer her deal with to the us, and mentioned the order be provided to her bodily and electronically. It additionally mentioned that for different reliefs like problem to the cancellation order, Khedkar must go to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). In the course of the listening to, senior advocate Indira Jaising, showing for Khedkar, mentioned the cancellation order was by no means communicated to her and she or he got here to learn about it solely by means of the press launch.
On being requested by the court docket as to why she has not approached CAT along with her problem, Khedkar’s lawyer mentioned since she was not served with the official order by UPSC, the plea was moved earlier than the excessive court docket impugning the press launch. Senior advocate Naresh Kaushik, representing UPSC, mentioned the order can be communicated by the Fee to Khedkar inside two days on her e-mail id in addition to her final recognized deal with.
On July 31, the us cancelled Khedkar’s candidature and debarred her from future exams. She was accused of ‘misrepresenting info’ in her software for the us Civil Providers Examination, 2022. Khedkar was additionally accused of dishonest and wrongly availing of OBC and incapacity quota advantages.
On August 1, a trial court docket right here had denied her anticipatory bail, saying these are critical allegations that “require an intensive investigation”.