India, Feb. 23 -- A 40-year-old worker died while another got injured after three people, including their contractor, thrashed them and attacked with sticks and a screwdriver on Thursday, police said on Sunday, adding that the workers had gone to his house to ask for their wages.

The accused -- contractor Rakesh Guddu, his brother Jitendra Singh and their friend Raj Kumar -- have been arrested for assault and confinement, police said. Sections of murder were to be added to the FIR, they added.

The deceased, Mahesh Ram, and his friend Rohit Baleshwar, 29, are labourers who live in Indira Camp in east Delhi's Trilokpuri. Baleshwar said that the two had picked up some cleaning work last week for Guddu.

"He (Guddu) took us to some house an...