MEERUT, April 12 -- A youth was strangled to death allegedly by his stepbrother and uncle over a property dispute in Badaun district's Patiyali Sarai locality, police said on Saturday. The accused were nabbed while attempting to dump the body on a railway track in a bid to cover up the crime, police added.

According to the police, the incident took place on Thursday afternoon following an altercation between the victim and the accused over a property dispute. The victim, Gautam Sahu, 22, lived on the second floor of a two-storey house in Patiyali Sarai, under the Sadar Kotwali area, and worked at a local doctor's clinic. His father Raju Sahu, a truck driver, had married twice and lost both wives. Gautam's stepbrother Sunny Sahu, a photog...