Delhi HC asks Puja Khedkar to respond to UPSC’splea seeking perjury proceedings against her
NEW DELHI :
THE Delhi High Court on
Thursday sought former probationary Indian Administrative
Service (IAS) officer Puja
Khedkar’s response on a plea by
the Union Public Service
Commission(UPSC)seekinginitiation of perjury proceedings
against her for allegedly giving
false statement and affidavit in
the court.Justice Jyoti Singh
issued notice to Khedkar on the
UPSC’s application and granted
her three weeks to file reply to
it.The court listed the matterfor
further hearing on November
26.TheUPSCcontendedthatthe
July31 communication by which
Khedkar’s candidature was cancelled was communicated to her
on her registered email ID the
same day.