Woman Cook's Suspicious Death: Son Booked for Fraud

In Bareilly district, the son of a retiring woman cook with Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) has been booked for fraud following her mysterious death on the day of her retirement.

- HT Correspondent

MEERUT:

The incident, unfolding in the 8th Battalion PAC, indicates manipulation aimed at securing a government job under the dependent quota, officials said.

According to the complaint filed by Ram Nath Rana, the camp in-charge of the 8th Battalion PAC, Chandra Devi, a cook posted with the battalion, was taken ill on February 27 and was referred to the district hospital.

Doctors there advised her son, Prahlad Singh Mehar, to shift her to a more advanced facility.

Prahlad then took his mother to a private medical college in Bhojipura, which subsequently referred her to the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow.