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Pune: THE Puja Khedkar, an IAS probationer, sordid saga refuses to die down. 

In latest development, the Pune police are arrested Manorama Khedkar, mother of Puja Khedkar, for ''threatening'' farmers at gunpoint in Mulshi taluka of Pune district.

Ms Manorama Khedkar was detained in Mahad area of Raigad district last night. She was brought to Pune this morning and arrested. By afternoon she will be produced before the court which will seek her police custody, the Pune Police said.

After her errant behaviour in Pune District Collectorate and following complaint to the state government by District Collector Suhas Diwase and her subsequent transfer to Washim, Ms Puja has been in all sorts of trouble.

One after another skeletons are tumbling out of her cupboards. Her disability certificates, her non-creamy layer certificates are all under the scanner. The fact that she refused to attend a medical test despite being called by AIIMS six times after she cleared the UPSC exam has several eyebrows.

The Lal Bahadur Shashtri Academy of Administration has called her back and has put training on hold. 

On her part, Ms Khedkar has denied all allegations. ''Let the committee decide...I will make all my submissions,'' she has said.