Ignorant villages beat a male dolphin to death and grievously injured another female dolphin in the Sharda canal in Nagram village, on the outskirts of Lucknow. The dolphins had strayed into the canal and the villagers mistook it for some "killer fish" and beat it with rods. One of the villagers then put the dead dolphin on a wheel cart and was towing it away when the Nagram police caught him. The man has been taken into custody. The Nagram police informed the forest officials who then sent the dead dolphin for post-mortem.