India, Oct. 25 -- A Dalit youth died on Friday at a Delhi hospital, days after he was attacked during a birthday celebration outside his home in Rabupura area of Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the incident that occurred on the night of October 15. Two accused identified as Yuvraj and Jitu, have been arrested, and efforts are on to trace the remaining suspects, news agency PTI quoted station house officer (SHO), Rabupura, Sujeet Upadhyay as saying.

Grief and simmering tension gripped Mohalla Ambedkar in Greater Noida as the body was brought home that afternoon under heavy police deployment.

It took nearly an hour of negotiations in the narrow lane, packed with dozens of onlooker...