The deceased has been identified as Vishram Samad, (38), belonging to Semria village in Jharkhand. His body was found this morning lying in a pool of blood in the fields, they said.
According to the police, Samad and the accused had drank together last night at a farmer's house where the victim was employed. But they seemed to have picked up a quarrel in the state of drunkenness after which the accused hit the victim with bricks fatally.
Phagwara SP Parminder Singh Bhandal, who visited the site, said that a case was registered in this connection under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of IPC.