Vijay Kumar was severely beaten up and later died late Thursday at Seura village in the Shahpur Patori area of Samastipur, about 100 km from state capital Patna, by owner of the orchard Ramvilas Rai and his son Sadhua Rai, according to police.

"My son's only crime was that he plucked a few mangoes from the orchard for which the father-son duo beat him to death," the boy's father said.