India, March 18 -- A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning a 70-year-old man to death following an argument over drinking alcohol in public in Sector 21, police said.

The accused, Monu Rajput, a native of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh who lives in Dundahera and works as a painter, was arrested within hours of the incident on Monday. He was produced before a court on Tuesday and taken on one-day police remand for interrogation, police said.

The deceased, identified as Jagdish (single name), was a resident of Dundahera in Udyog Vihar.

According to police, the incident took place around 4.15pm on Monday near a wine shop, where Rajput was consuming alcohol. Jagdish objected and asked him to move elsewhere, triggering a...