bareilly a 22yearold man was allegedly beaten to death by his girlfriends family members in uttar pradeshs lakhimpur kheri district the incident took place after the accused family caught their 20yearold daughter with the victim abhijeet kumar on the intervening night of may 5 and 6 kumar was allegedly brutally beaten causing severe injuries to his private parts and was blindedpolice said the man was found in a sugarcane field by his sister and brotherinlaw who then informed the cops and rushed him to a hospital in lucknow where he succumbed to his injuries on monday the incident was reported from gijiyapur village under the jurisdiction of hyderabad police the officials said the girl had admitted to being in a relationship with kumar and the two wanted to get marriedkumar hailed from gijiyapur londonpur village and had been living with his sister in rammapur village he had recently completed his graduation kumars sister told toi that her brothers marriage had been fixed with the girl he was caught with but due to certain differences her father had arranged her marriage elsewhere on the day of the incident kumar had gone to gijiyapur village but never returnedshe said my brothers girlfriend refused to marry someone else angering her father vijay pal who had previously threatened to kill abhijeet on may 5 they beat him brutally and left him to die they were planning to set him afire as they thought that he had died someone from gijiyapur village gave us information and we rescued him he was unconscious had injuries on his private parts and was unable to see we tried to save his life but he succumbed to injuries in lucknowpolice have booked three members of the girls family under ipc sections 308 attempt to commit culpable homicide 323 voluntarily causing grievous hurt and 504 intentional insult sho of hyderabad police station chandrabhan singh yadav said the body has been sent for postmortem the sections of culpable homicide will be added to the fir after the autopsy report arrives we have detained two accused including the girls mother for questioning