IAS trainee Puja Khedkar’s mother held in land dispute case

Pune: A court in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Thursday remanded Manorama Khedkar, mother of IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, in police custody till July 20 after she was arrested for allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute.

Manorama was apprehended from a lodge in Mahad in Raigad district in the morning. She was hiding there, police said. Manorama was then brought to the Paud police station in Pune district and placed under arrest. She was produced before a local court which remanded her in police custody till July 20, said an official.