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Dilip Khedkar has moved the court seeking pre-arrest (“anticipatory”) bail. (File image)
Paud police station has registered a case against Dilip and Manorama Khedkar and five others under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 144 (unlawful assembly with deadly weapon), 147 (rioting) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code Register.
A session court here has granted interim protection from arrest till July 25 to Dilip Khedkar, father of controversial IAS probation officer Puja Khedkar, accused of threatening others with gun over a land dispute.
On Thursday, Pune rural police arrested his wife Manorama Khedkar, Pooja's mother, in the same case. Manorama was remanded in police custody until July 20.
Dilip Khedkar has moved the court seeking pre-arrest (“anticipatory”) bail.
Lawyers representing him said Judge AN Mare granted him “temporary arrest protection” until the next hearing on July 25. The lawyer added that if police arrested him before then, he would have to be released on bail.
Paud police station has registered a case against Dilip and Manorama Khedkar and five others under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 144 (unlawful assembly with deadly weapon), 147 (rioting) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code Register.
The first information report was registered after a viral video showed Manorama allegedly threatening some people at gunpoint in Dhadwali village in Pune's Mulshi tehsil. The event takes place in 2023.
Earlier in the day, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) said it had filed a criminal case against Pooja Khedekar, accusing her of forging her identity and fraudulently trying to appear in the civil services examination beyond her qualifications, and taking steps to bar her from future selections.
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