A 45-year-old Dalit man was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district allegedly by his niece's lover who is from a different caste, police said today. The incident happened a couple of days back at Bhagwantpur village in Bilsanda area -- 215 km northwest of Lucknow.

The victim, Shiv Kumar, had gone to call back her niece who went to her lover's house, resulting in a dispute between Kumar and the youth, an OBC, said Pilibhit Superintendent of Police Balendu Bhushan Singh.