# Lucknow: Father-son arrested for iron rod murder over anklet row 2026-08-10T09:36:54+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A 22-year-old man was beaten to death with an iron rod in Lucknow's Madiaon after a dispute over an anklet. CCTV footage shows the victim, Shubham Soni, staggering and collapsing outside his house. He later died at KGMU. Police arrested a father-son duo within six hours and recovered a bloodstained iron rod and a knife. The victim's family said the accused, Sumit Verma, 22, and his father Mathura Prasad, 47, attacked Shubham because he had helped sell Sumit's mother's anklet and then threatened to tell her. The accused were produced before a court. Investigation and postmortem results will determine further action, police said. ## Coverage - hindustantimes.com Tags: arrest, CCTV footage, family dispute, iron rod attack, Lucknow, murder Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/lucknow-father-son-arrested-for-iron-rod-murder-over-anklet-row/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/lucknow-father-son-arrested-for-iron-rod-murder-over-anklet-row/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.