LUCKNOW, March 24 -- Asking a group of youngsters to stop fighting cost a 43-year-old woman her life.

Sarika Shrivastava was shot dead outside her house during an altercation between some students, in Lucknow's Sairpur area on Saturday night, police said.

"Sarika Shrivastava lived with her husband in Brijdham Colony. The couple's house is located near Anita Nayak Hostel. As many as eight inmates of the hostel have been taken into custody and are being questioned," said Lucknow police in a statement.

According to police, the woman and her husband were on the roof of their house when they saw a group of young men from the hostel fighting. She first asked them to not shout. As the fight escalated, she went to the men to make them stop sho...