Ramgarh: An unemployed man killed his father to get a job in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district.
The 55-year-old Krishna Ram, who was employed as head security guard at the Central Workshop of Central Coal Fields Limited (CCL) in Barkakana, was found dead with his throat slit, police said.
Sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Prakash Chandra Mahto said that Ram’s elder son had killed him at his quarter in Barkakana, Times Now reported.
Police recovered a small hummer knife which they think was used to commit the crime.
During interrogation, the man confessed that he killed his father to get a job in the PSU on ‘compassionate ground’.
In case of death during service tenure, the employee’s legal dependent gets a job in the PSU, as per company rules.