India, June 28 -- A 26-year-old man allegedly shot his father dead in north Delhi's Timarpur area on Thursday evening after an argument, police said on Friday. The accused has been arrested and police are evaluating his mental health conditions.

The victim, Surender Singh, 60, was a retired sub-inspector in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and was packing on Thursday to move out with his family to their ancestral village in Uttarakhand. The family had been living in a government accommodation in Timarpur for several years.

While the luggage was loaded onto a tempo, his son Deepak Singh insisted on going in the tempo. Surender, however, told him to accompany the family on a bus instead.

"The refusal enraged Deepak and he got his...