Some youths performing stunts with their tractor allegedly ran over two bike-borne men here, leaving one of them dead and the other critically injured, police said on Monday. The incident happened Sunday evening in Gagalhedi Police Station area, when the two men asked the tractor-riders for space to overtake, police said.

They said since the victims belong to Dalit community and the accused from Gujjar caste, police have been deployed in the area as a precautionary measure. Allegedly, when they were asked for side, those on the tractor found the gesture impertinent and ran over the bikers, police said. Both the men were rushed to a local hospital, where one of them, Mulayam, 28, who had sustained some serious fractures, was declared dead by the doctors.