A complaint was registered by the Pune police on Thursday against a cook who worked for a scientist. The reason being that the cook, Nirmala Yadav, claimed to be Nirmala Kulkarni and a Brahmin by caste.

The police claimed that Medha Khole, a senior IMD scientist today registered a cheating complaint against her cook, claiming she hurt her "religious sentiments" by posing as a Brahmin, the police said.

Khole holds a senior position at the India Meteorological Department, said in her complaint that she required a Brahmin to cook food at her house during religious and other occasions. Yadav, who approached Khole last year for the said job, had then introduced herself as Nirmala Kulkarni, a senior police official said.

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"The complainant had even gone to her house to cross check her claim in 2016. Thereafter, Yadav started going to Khole's house on such occasions to prepare food," she added. The officer said Khole came to know yesterday that the cook was not a Brahmin, reported PTI.

According to the officer, Khole stated that upon knowing about the cook's "lie", her "religious sentiments" got hurt. After this, Khole went to the cook's house to seek an explanation and found out her real name.

Khole also claimed that the cook abused and intimidated her, police said. A case under Sections 419 (cheating by personation), 352 (punishment for assault or criminal force) and 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the Sinhgad Police station, the official said.