India, May 24 -- A 65-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly shooting at his 55-year-old neighbour for guiding a census team to the suspect's house at Adarsh Colony in Muradnagar, police said.

Police identified the suspect as Rampal Chaudhary, 65, who hails from Duhai in Ghaziabad and stays at Adarsh Colony in Muradnagar. The injured person was identified as Virendra Tyagi, 55. He is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Modinagar.

ACP (Muradnagar) Bhaskar Verma told HT: "Around 11am, a team of census staff came to Adarsh Colony and sought Tyagi's help to guide them to households. Tyagi also guided them to Chaudhary's house for the exercise. However, when the census staff reached there, Tyagi started misbehaving with them d...