A man killed his father by attacking him with a liquor bottle following a brawl in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/himachal-pradesh-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Himachal Pradesh</a>'s capital Shimla, police said on Tuesday.
The incident happened in Vikasnagar area on Monday, they said, adding the accused Navpreet (22) has been arrested.
According to a complaint filed by the victim's mother, when she went to her son Vijay's (44) house, she found his body lying in a pool of blood, police said.
When she confronted her grandson, he attacked her, they said.
Preliminary investigations revealed that both Vijay and Navpreet were alcoholics.
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They had a fight over some issue following which Navpreet attacked his father with a liquor bottle, police said, adding Vijay's wife had left the house a few years ago.
A case under sections 302 (murder) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/indian-penal-code-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Indian Penal Code</a> has been registered and the accused has been arrested, SP Shimla Sanjeev Gandhi told the PTI.&nbsp;
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The incident happened in Vikasnagar area on Monday, they said, adding the accused Navpreet (22) has been arrested

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