India, March 13 -- Punjab Police on Thursday booked the absconding neighbour of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) researcher Abhishek Swarnkar, 39, for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after a scuffle over a parking dispute claimed his life on Tuesday night.

Mohali Phase-11 station house officer Gagandeep Singh said a case under Section 105 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered against the 26-year-old accused, Monty, and efforts are on to arrest him.

The victim from West Bengal was a national post-doctoral fellow at IISER staying on rent with his parents in Sector 66, Mohali. He had undergone a kidney transplant recently and was on ...