18-Jul-2024 03:00 PM
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Mumbai, July 18 (Reporter) Manorama Dilip Khedkar, mother of controversial Indian Administrative Service-Probationary Officer Puja Khedkar, has been detained for allegedly threatening farmers in Pune with a pistol, officials said on Thursday.
A team of Pune Rural police detained her from a hotel in Mahad town in Raigad early on Thursday, police said.
Manorama, a former sarpanch of Bhalgaon, was “missing” for nearly a week after a video went viral on social media showing her threatening some farmers in Mulshi with a pistol allegedly to grab their land.
She is being taken to Paud where a complaint against her was given by farmer Pandharinath Pasalkar last Friday, police said.
In a related development, Pune Commissioner of Police has issued a notice seeking to cancel Manorama’s her firearms licence...////...