The Court of First Instance yesterday heard that the Nepali man, identified as LT, allegedly murdered the fellow worker from India on September 19 last year.
The police were notified about a body that was found in a sandy location in Al Quoz.
"The body was covered with blood. We knew from the workers there that the victim and another man used to drink alcohol together and sleep under the trucks in the sandy yard," police was quoted as saying by Khaleej Times.
On that day, they drank together and had a fight. When LT stopped the victim from drinking further as he was very drunk, the Indian man allegedly abused his family, following which the latter attacked him and fled the scene, the report said.