Nagpur, May 19 (PTI) A 23-year-old man allegedly bludgeoned his friend to death after the latter sodomised him in an inebriated state at a village in Maharashtra's Nagpur district, police said on Friday.

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The victim, who hailed from Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, an official said.

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According to the police, the accused and the victim were consuming alcohol together on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, when the latter allegedly sodomised him in an inebriated state, he said.

Angered by the attack, the accused bludgeoned the victim to death with a heavy blunt object and fled the scene, the official said.

A case under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the accused, who has since been arrested, he added.

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