India, May 23 -- A 65-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly shooting his 55-year-old neighbour in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district after the neighbour guided a census team to his house in Adarsh Colony in Muradnagar, police said.

The accused Rampal Chaudhary hails from Duhai in Ghaziabad and stays in Adarsh Colony, police said. The injured man was identified as Virendra Tyagi and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Modinagar.

Assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Muradnagar, Bhaskar Verma, told HT, "Around 11am, a team of census staff came to Adarsh Colony and sought Tyagi's help in guiding them to households. Tyagi also guided them to Chaudhary's house for the exercise. However, when the census staff re...