PRAYAGRAJ, Aug. 14 -- A 30-year-old contractual computer operator with the food and civil supplies department was allegedly beaten to death by unidentified assailants while returning home in Lalganj area of Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh on Thursday night, police said on Friday.

Saurabh alias Monu Vishwakarma, a resident of Manapur Sindhaur village, worked at the office of the supply inspector in Lalganj. Police said he had an old dispute with some people in the village.

According to police, Monu was returning home on his motorcycle when the assailants waylaid him near Gajadhar Inter College, Lakshmanpur, about five kilometres from his house. They allegedly attacked him with sticks and iron rods and fled after locals rushed to the spot on h...