Govt Dismisses Puja Khedkar From IAS After UPSC Cancelled Selection Over Quota Misuse: Report
The central government has discharged former trainee officer Puja Khedkar from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with immediate effect. This comes over a month after the Union Public Service Commission cancelled her selection after being accused of misusing her Other Backward Classes and disability quota benefits.
In an official order dated Septembr 6, the government discharged Khedkar under Rule 12 of IAS (Probation) Rules, 1954, news agency IANS reported. The rules allow the government to discharge a probationer from service in case he or she fails to pass the re-examination or if the Centre is satisfied that a probationer was found to be ineligible for recruitment to the Service or is unsuitable to become a member of the service, among others.
Khedkar, who was from the 2023 batch,...