India, Aug. 7 -- A sessions court here has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Rajendra Babanrao Khedekar, an accused in an allegedly fake Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recruitment case in which investigators claim more than Rs.1.05 crore was collected from unemployed job aspirants by promising them civic jobs using forged appointment documents.

Additional sessions judge A K Sharma, in his order on Wednesday, observed that the allegations disclose a 'well-organised job recruitment fraud' in which unemployed youth were induced to pay large sums of money on the false promise of securing jobs in the PMC. The court held that the seriousness of the allegations, the stage of the investigation, and the need for custodial interrogation of ...