PUNE: The Pune rural police arrested a 30-year-old Nepali national from the Indo-Nepal border on the charge of murdering his friend identified as Bhagwan Markad by brutally attacking him with a stick on his head in a village at Saswad, Pune in India over a petty dispute on the night of July 9.

On July 9, a corpse was found abandoned in a nullah and it belonged to Bhagwan Markad who worked as labor at a local tyre shop, Hindustan Times reported.

He was a drunkard and the police suspected that he had been killed over some petty dispute over binge drinking.

The police got the information that a Nepali servant named Niranjan Sahani who worked as a domestic help at the residence of Sachin Borkar was missing.

The police made more inquiries in the case and found that they were friends and had organized liquor parties together in the recent past.

The accused had organized a liquor cum mutton party at his residence at 8 pm on the night of July 8 and had a tiff with the deceased over a petty issue.

(with inputs from Hindustan Times)