Gun video: IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s mother may lose arm license if….
PUNE: Separate teams of Pune Rural and Pune City police visited the bungalow of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s mother, Manorama, in Baner at 7am and 10am on Sunday but had to return from the gates without meeting the mother as nobody responded to their repeated calls.
Pankaj Deshmukh, SP (Pune Rural), told TOI, “We wanted to question Manorama Khedkar about a case of rioting and threatening Paud police registered against her following a complaint by a farmer from Dhadawali in Mulshi taluka.”
The case was registered on Friday night after a video surfaced showing Manorama, accompanied by private bouncers, brandishing a pistol on June 5, 2023, during an argument with some farmers over a land ownership issue.
On Saturday, police recorded statements of witnesses from Dhadawali and also carried out a spot panchanama. At 7am on Sunday, officials from Paud police and Rural police’s local crime branch reached Manorama’s bungalow.
Deshmukh said, “We also wanted to know the details about the private bouncers and others who accompanied Manorama at the time of the incident. On reaching the bungalow, our team called out their names, but nobody responded, and the gates were locked from inside.”
Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar had said on Saturday that the licence for the .25 bore Webley and Scott pistol was issued to Manorama by Pune police in 2000 for self-defence purposes. After the case was registered by Paud police, Pune police wanted to serve a notice on her seeking her explanation as to why the licence should not be revoked. Kumar signed the notice on Saturday night.
As such, senior inspector Shailesh Shankhe and his team from Chatushrungi police reached Manorama’s bungalow gates at 10am to hand over the notice but again there was no response from the occupants. The team then pasted the notice on the gates and returned.
The notice addressed to Manorama mentions details of the case registered by Paud police and refers to violation of terms of licence in the wake of misuse of the firearm. It further directs her to reply to the notice within 10 days, failing which the licence shall be cancelled.
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