India, July 15 -- A shop owner threw petrol on a man sitting in a car outside his shop during an argument over moving the vehicle, causing the man to catch fire from a lit cigarette and suffer 20% burn injuries, police said on Monday, adding that the shop owner has been arrested for attempted murder.

The victim, identified as Rahul Chauhan, a resident of Vasant Gaon in south Delhi who works as a sanitation worker in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), is undergoing treatment at the AIIMS Trauma Centre. The accused, Gaya Prasad alias Kalu, runs a two-wheeler repair shop in RK Puram Sector 8.

"The incident took place at 9.30pm on Sunday when Chauhan halted his Maruti Baleno car outside Kalu's repair shop and sat in the car smoking c...