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Pune: Prison officer sacked for violating two-child norm

As per provisions of the Maharashtra Civil Services (declaration of small family) Rules-2005, a candidate should have a "small family", which is defined as husband, wife and two children.

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A woman prison superintendent in Pune has been dismissed from service for allegedly violating the two-child norm and suppressing the fact that she had three children.

Maharashtra home department's deputy secretary N S Karad, in an order issued on Monday, said Swati Jogdand, posted as superintendent in the Pune district prison, concealed information that she had three children before her appointment in the department in 2012.

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