LUCKNOW, Feb. 22 -- Police on Saturday arrested two men and took a juvenile into protection for allegedly killing a 25-year temple caretaker, dragging him nearly 10 metres, strangling him with a bedsheet and dumping his body into a 15-foot-deep vacant plot in Dubagga's Ashrayheen Colony, all over a suspicion that he had burnt one of the accused's scooter.

The accused, Ankit Tiwari, 20, a resident of Ara in Bihar, and Rahul Rawat, 19, along with a 17-year-old, were nabbed near Joggers Park crossing and later sent to judicial custody.

SHO Dubagga Srikant Rai said the motive traced back to January 16, when Tiwari found his scooter burnt and allegedly suspected victim Kallu Prajapati alias Baba, 60, or those staying with him, of being respo...