LUCKNOW, April 14 -- A 14-year-old student of Class 10 was taken into custody on Sunday for allegedly murdering a 44-year-old man during a burglary attempt gone wrong at Vigyan Khand in Gomti Nagar Extension about a month ago, police officials said.

The boy, an alleged drug addict, hit the man with a brick repeatedly and fled the scene after removing all evidence from the house, the officials added.

The minor entered the apparently locked house a day after Holi thinking that it was vacant but, to his surprise, found the man, who threatened to inform his family, and was in turn fatally attacked during a scuffle, the police said.

The boy is a delivery executive and had appeared for the Class 10 board exams this year, according to Gomti N...