Image Source : PTI (FILE) Puja Khedkar. The Delhi High Court today (September 12) sought former probationary Indian Administrative Service (IAS) trainee Puja Khedkar’s response on a plea by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) seeking initiation of perjury proceedings against her for allegedly giving false statement and affidavit in the court. The UPSC contended that the July 31 communication by which Khedkar’s candidature was cancelled was communicated to her on her registered email-id the same day. It said it was the same email id, which was registered in her online application for the Civil Service Program (CSP) 2022. However, she made a false statement in the court that she has not been served with the order and she came to know of it only through the press release issued by the UPSC, it claimed. Puja Khedkar gave false details in court Senior advocate Naresh Kaushik, representing the UPSC, submitted that the former officer even gave false information to her lawyers and she very well knew that she was making a false statement on oath …