MUMBAI: The ex-probationary IAS officer Pooja Khedkar’s family has once again been in the limelight for another wrong reason. Her family members are booked for abducting a truck driver who allegedly dashed their SUV in Navi Mumbai.
However, Pune police were able to rescue the truck driver from the residence of the Khedkar family in Pune. The Khedkar family has been missing, and police are trying to trace them.
According to the police, Pooja Khedkar’s mother, Manorama Khedkar, was travelling in Navi Mumbai, and the heavy cement mixture truck allegedly dashed her SUV Land Cruiser. Then two people from this SUV stepped down and pulled down the truck driver, Prahadkumar Kumar, and assaulted him badly. After that, they forcefully took the driver along with them in the SUV. The driver immediately informed his truck owner, Vilas Dengare, who called the police and lodged a complaint of kidnapping of his driver.
The Navi Mumbai police immediately tracked the SUV and followed it still Pune, and they noticed that the SUV was parked in front of the bungalow that was owned by controversial ex probationary IAS officer Pooja Khedkar’s father, Dilip Khedkar. The police requested the Khedkar family to open the bungalow door, but they refused to do so, and threatened them by releasing their barking dogs.
The Navi Mumbai police then informed the Pune police, and more police were called. Then they climbed over the wall of the Khedkar family bungalow and rescued the truck driver. During that rescue operation, Manorma and Dilip Khedkar ran away from the rear gate of their bungalow.
The police booked Manorama and Dilip Khedkar under charges of obstructing the public servants from doing his or her duty, destroying evidence, giving false information, and resisting in lawful act.
Earlier, Pooja Khedkar's mother, Manorama Khedkar, was arrested for flashing the gun and threatening the villagers to grab their land, while father, Dilip Khedkar is also under investigation for unaccounted wealth of Rs 40 crore.
Pooja Khedkar, 2023 batch IAS, was suspended from her probationary service of IAS for submitting a fraudulent OBC certificate, suppressing the facts, and falsely showing multiple disabilities to the Union Public Service Commission.
