PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 24 -- A 21-year-old youth was brutally beaten to death late Monday night in Jagauti Bhaterwa village under Karachhana police station limits of Prayagraj, allegedly after he entered a house to meet a woman. The accused, after the assault, reportedly called the police themselves, claiming a thief had broken into their house.

Police have registered an FIR naming six individuals.

The deceased, Diwakar Patel, a JCB driver and resident of Pahlu Ka Pura village under Ghoorpur police station area, had gone to his maternal home in Jagauti Bhaterwa. According to police, locals informed that Diwakar had been speaking to a married woman over the phone for the past sometime and went to meet her at her residence, which belonged to on...