Karnal, July 15 -- A 16-year-old student was allegedly beaten to death by a group of young men in Karnal's Dholgarh village on Tuesday, police said.

The deceased, Prateek, was a student of Class 10 at a local school and was returning home from a Hanuman Temple from a nearby village, when he was allegedly attacked by three to four men.

Police said the injured student was rushed to a private hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead. The deceased was the only brother of two sisters.

Eyewitnesses said that when Prateek was coming back to his village, three to four men came on bikes with their faced covered and began beating him with sticks.

While the family was clueless behind the reason, police suspected it to be a case of a dis...