LUCKNOW: A 70-year-old man was beaten to death while trying to stop a drunken brawl outside his house in the upmarket Jaiprakash Nagar locality of Varanasi late on Wednesday.
Varanasi police commissioner A. Satish Ganesh said the incident took place around 11.30pm when the victim, identified as Pashupati Singh, and his son Rajendra Singh, who owns a beer shop in the area, came out of the house to intervene in a drunken between two groups of locals.
The situation took an ugly turn when both groups began to assault Rajendra for intervening uninvited. Pashupati saw his son being attacked and rushed to rescue him.
One of the inebriated members of the group hit Pashupati on the head with a stick. The elderly man died on the spot while the miscreants fled leaving behind an injured Rajendra.
The father-son were rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced Pashupati dead while Rajendra is being treated for multiple injuries, CP Varanasi told TOI over phone. Asked about reports that the victim was a BJP leader, police said they were yet to come across anything that suggests so.