India, Nov. 26 -- Five boys have been arrested for setting their 21-year-old friend on fire while celebrating his birthday on Monday night. The victim, Abul Rehman Maksud Alam Khan, a resident of Kurla, suffered burn injuries and has been admitted to Bhabha Hospital in Kurla.

"Masti kiya," is how the friends described their motive to the Vinoba Bhave police in Kurla west.

Police said Abul was a resident of Kohinoor Phase in Kurla west and is a second year Bachelor of Accounting Finance student in a Matunga-based college. The night before his birthday on Tuesday, Abul received a phone call from his friends, asking him to meet them.

The friends - Ayaz Malik, Ashraf Malik, Qasim Chowdhury, Huzzaifa Khan and Sharif Shaikh - had bought a ca...