Pune: There is growing speculation that the Thermoverita Engineering Company, involved in the controversial IAS trainee officer Puja Khedkar case, may soon be auctioned.

The company has an outstanding tax of ₹272000. According to Nilesh Deshmukh, Chief of the Tax Collection Department, the already seized company is likely to be auctioned.

IAS trainee officer Puja Khedkar has faced multiple controversies. She used the address of Thermoverita Engineering Company in Pimpri-Chinchwad to obtain a 7 per cent disability certificate from YCM Hospital.

Khedkar provided a ration card as identification for the disability certificate, which listed the company's address.

Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial (YCM) Hospital Dean Dr. Rajendra Wable has already exonerated doctors team from his hospital who had issued this disability certificate to Puja Khedkar. The 'clean chit' came after the Pune District Collector Dr. Suhas Divase ordered an investigation into the certificate issuance.

Wable reported that no fraud was detected and clarified that verifying the ration card, used by Khedkar as an identification document, was not the hospital's responsibility. He thus dismissed the allegations against the YCM hospital.

The company had been paying taxes regularly until April 2022. However, it has an outstanding tax of ₹272,000 for the past two years. Currently, an attachment order has been issued, and their property has been seized.

According to the order, the tax must be paid within 21 days, failing which the property may be auctioned or sold. Thus, the auction threat looms over Thermoverita Engineering Company in the IAS officer Puja Khedkar case.