Hans News Service Kanpur

A 47-year-old businessman was allegedly beaten to death with a brick by four youths after he objected to one of them urinating on a road in an upscale locality here, with CCTV footage revealing the shocking sequence of events, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place around midnight near Om Crossing in Kakadeo when Amit Kumar, a resident of Naveen Nagar, was returning home after closing his shop, Police Commissioner Raghubir Lal told PTI.

According to the CCTV footage now in police possession, four youths were drinking on the roadside when one of them allegedly began urinating on the road. Kumar objected, following which an argument broke out and the youth allegedly abused him.

Three others accompanying him then joined the assault and surrounded Kumar, repeatedly hitting him on the head with a brick, leaving him critically injured, Lal said.

When some bystanders attempted to intervene, the attackers allegedly threatened them and told them to leave or face a similar fate, he said.

“The CCTV footage has revealed the shocking sequence of events. We have launched a massive search for the accused and are making efforts to arrest them at the earliest,” Lal said.

Two of the alleged attackers have been identified as Jitendra Srivastava and Kushal Srivastava, while efforts are underway to identify the other two with the help of CCTV footage, the police commissioner said.

Local residents alerted police through the emergency helpline 112 and informed Kumar’s family following the assault.

Kumar was initially taken to a nearby private hospital and later shifted to Anurag Hospital, where he remained under treatment for two days. His condition subsequently deteriorated and he died on Monday night.

Kumar’s family reached the post-mortem house and demanded the immediate arrest of all the accused. His body was handed over to the family after the post-mortem examination.