The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest to former IAS trainee Puja Khedkar, accused of fraudulently clearing the civil services examination held by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Issuing a notice on her appeal challenging the Delhi High Court order denying her anticipatory bail, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma directed that no coercive steps be taken against her until the next date of hearing. The notice is returnable by February 14.
Justice Nagarathna told senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, who appeared for Khedkar, what the apprehension was when nothing had happened to her so far. Luthra responded that the high…