India, July 7 -- Two security guards beat a 26-year-old man to death after allegedly mistaking him for a thief in Faridabad Sector 10 on Saturday, police said on Monday, adding that the two have been arrested. The victim, who police said was drunk, had come to the area at 11.30pm and was assaulted by the guards for failing to give coherent answers, police said, adding that they left the wounded man lying on the road.

The victim, identified as Rakesh Kumar, who lived in Faridabad Sector 81, was assaulted so severely that he suffered a ruptured spleen, liver, fractured ribs, and a head injury causing internal bleeding, according to the autopsy carried out on Sunday. He had come to the area to meet his father, who works there at a community...