Regret To Inform…”: Trainee IAS Officer’s Disability Request Was Denied

Mumbai: 

Puja Khedkar – the trainee IAS officer facing allegations of lying about mental and visual infirmities to qualify for the Civil Services, and then abusing her position – applied for a disability certificate from Pune in August 2022 but was shot down by doctors who examined her and said “it is not possible”.

“Please refer to your application dated 23/08/2022 for issue (of) disability certificate for following disability: Locomotor Disability (which can refer to cerebral palsy or a condition affecting bones or muscles that could restrict movement of the legs or arms)…” Pune’s Aundh Hospital told her.

“… you have been examined by the undersigned / Medical Board on 11/10/2022 and I / We regret to inform that… it is not possible to issue a disability certificate in your favour,” she was told in a letter.