LUCKNOW, April 22 -- Accused of breaking into a house to commit a burglary, two men were brutally assaulted with a cricket bat and sticks before they were smeared with black paint and left for dead near the tracks in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar Extension, police said on Monday. While one of them was found dead, the other died on the way to a hospital, they added.

Police said at least six-seven men assaulted the two daily wage workers mercilessly with bats and sticks night in the wee hours of Sunday and then wrote '420' on one of them before abandoning them by the tracks near a posh locality. The duo was spotted in the morning.

On Monday, police arrested three men, including the key accused who lives close to where the bodies were found, in co...