Some Lesser Known Facts About Puja Khedkar Puja belongs to a family of bureaucrats and politicians from Pathardi tehsil in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. In 2022, she cleared the UPSC exam and became an IAS officer. She was first posted as an Additional Collector in Pune. In 2022, Puja reached out to CAT to apply for reservations for the persons with disability for A (visual impairment) and D (mental disability) categories as provided under section 34 of the Rights of Persons with ... Supreme Court protects former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar from arrest till February 14 in cheating case. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, January 15, granted protection from arrest to Puja Khedkar , a former IAS trainee accused of cheating and allegedly misusing OBC and disability quota benefits in the ... Here’s a Timeline of the Puja Khedkar case: Disability Certificates: Puja Khedkar secured a visually-impaired certificate from the Ahmednagar district hospital in 2019. In 2021, she secured a combined certificate for visual impairment and mental illness from the same hospital. In 2022, she secured a certificate mentioning locomotor disability in her left knee from Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, Pimpri. Reports say while applying for the certificate, she showed a fake ration card ...