LUCKNOW, Oct. 28 -- A suspected workplace dispute over video recording allegedly led to the murder of 29-year-old Umesh Nishad, a contractual worker at the Baikunth Dham electric crematorium, whose post-mortem report confirmed a fatal head injury. The three men named by his family, who also worked at the crematorium, remained absconding on Wednesday as relatives placed his body at the facility's gate and staged a nearly four-hour protest, demanding their arrest, Rs.20 lakh compensation and a government job for one family member.

The family placed Umesh's body at the crematorium gate on Wednesday morning, disrupting proceedings for nearly four hours. The protesters demanded Rs.20 lakh compensation, a government job for one member of the b...