Standing Against Wrong, Paying With Life Taking a stand against public nuisance has proven fatal yet again. In separate incidents in Lucknow, an elderly woman was beaten to death for objecting to public urination, while a 43-year-old woman was shot dead after she asked a group of youths to stop fighting.

Taking a stand against public nuisance has proven fatal yet again. In separate incidents in Lucknow, an elderly woman was beaten to death for objecting to public urination, while a 43-year-old woman was shot dead after she asked a group of youths to stop fighting.

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW: An elderly woman was beaten to death after she objected to a young man urinating in public, in Lucknow's Gosaiganj area on March 15, police said. The accused, Tushal, 22, who confessed to the crime, was arrested on Saturday.

Badly bruised, the woman's body was found in an abandoned house in Gosaiganj a day after she was reported missing.

According to police, Tushal alias Vishal Verma was caught urinating in public by 62-year-old Jagrana on March 15. "The accused said the woman abused him when she saw him. As this was the second time she had objected to him urinating in public, it angered Tushal, who then dragged her inside a house and hit her on the head and face several times with a metal bar, and a piece of a brick, which resulted in her death," said deputy commissioner of police(DCP)-South Nipun Agarwal.

The accused is an LLB student at a college in Ahimamau. His parents own a sweet shop.

"Four police teams and a surveillance team from the office of the DCP-South were deployed to find the accused, who was arrested on Saturday from the Purvanchal Expressway," said DCP Agarwal.