LUCKNOW, Feb. 19 -- Grief over a mother's murder, a slap on a busy road, and a few words of alleged abuse during a road rage confrontation, it took just these three triggers for two brothers to allegedly plot and execute the shooting of 60-year-old honorary flight lieutenant in the IAF, Awadhesh Kumar Pathak, outside his Lucknow cloud kitchen on January 30. The two, identified as Durgesh Mishra, 31, and Amit Mishra, 24, were arrested on Thursday.

Deputy commissioner of police (South) Nipun Agarwal told reporters that during interrogation, Amit revealed his mother was murdered in 2020 in Amethi, a case that left a deep emotional scar on him. On November 28, 2025, he allegedly got into a confrontation with Pathak near Arjunganj after his m...