LUCKNOW, Sept. 3 -- Two days after the killing, police on Wednesday worked out a blind muder case where a watchman was stabbed 15 times to death while sleeping on a terrace in Mahigawa. Police said a family dispute over land took a deadly turn in Lucknow when a 17-year-old allegedly plotted the murder of his elder brother and agreed to pay Rs.88,000 to have him killed, police said on Wednesday.

The victim, 30-year-old Satish Yadav, who worked as a watchman, was asleep on the terrace of a house under construction in the Mahigwan area when four men allegedly reached the spot in the early hours of August 31 and attacked him with a knife and iron rods, police said.

Three men have now been arrested and the minor has been taken into police pr...