India, Oct. 8 -- A 35-year-old man was bludgeoned to death with heavy stones by his three friends on suspicion of stealing a bicycle in Sector 99, said police on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Hira Kumar, originally from Mohanpur in Madhepura district of Bihar. The incident had taken place between 10pm and 10.30pm on Monday.

Kumar was rushed to civil hospital in Sector 10 but due to his severe head injury, doctors referred him to Safdarjung hospital, Delhi where he succumbed in the course of treatment on Tuesday morning.

Investigators said that the suspects Hamidul Rahman, 30, and Sanjay Das, 28, of Malda and Prosenjit (single name), 27, of South Dinajpur, all from West Bengal, were arrested from different locations in the cit...