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World’s worst job applicant

By: Runa :+: Under: Asides, Crime, It Happens Only in India
On: ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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Just in time for Father’s day , this “heartwarming” story from India.

An Indian man, frustrated at failing to find employment, ordered the murder of his father to get his government job a day before the victim was to retire, police said on Tuesday. (link)

The Government in India has a policy of allowing qualified family members to be hired in case a relative dies in service. The original intent of the policy was laudable - it enabled widows or children of government employees to get steady employment if the breadwinner of the family died. Of course, like all well -meaning social programs, there are always those lunatic elements who decide to pervert the intention to suit themselves.

The son had paid a relative about $2,500 to carry out the crime which was committed at the weekend but reported on Tuesday.

“He told us he would have got a government job on compassionate grounds had this murder remained a mystery,” Singh said.

O tempora ! O Mores!

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