Bareilly (UP), Oct 16 (PTI) A group of people chased and stabbed a 22-year-old man to death on a village road while he was returning from a local fair here, police said on Thursday.

Three people have been taken into custody in connection with the incident, which took place in Rajau Parsapur village on Wednesday night.

Barely 20 steps from the murder site, a temporary police post was set up for fair security, but no police personnel were present there at the time, according to eyewitnesses. Show Full Article

Police said the victim, Abhishek Yadav, was allegedly in love with a girl from another caste in the same village, which had led to tensions between the two families.

Yadav worked at a plywood workshop in the village, while his father Ramkishan, a retired Army personnel, was engaged

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