Delhi police have arrested a national level power-lifter, who along with his associates, allegedly robbed two youths of Rs 4 lakh cash and a scooter in outer Delhi's Rohini subcity.
The accused, identified as Sumeet, is a professional powerlifter and former student of a University in Haryana. He has participated in powerlifting competitions upto the national level and won a gold medal at a state-level competition around three years ago, a senior police official said.
After college, Sumeet did not get a decent job and later started driving taxi in Delhi. His income was not enough to support himself and his girlfriend, with whom he lived in outer Delhi's Sultanpuri area, police said.
Things got tougher lately, when Sumeet fell in love with another woman over a social networking site and started looking for ways to earn easy money to impress her, despite severe financial crunch.
That is when he allegedly joined hands with two Haryana-based criminals, his old time friends, who operated in outer Delhi and planned a robbery, police said.
On February 29 Sumeet and his associates - identified as Naveen Tota and Honey - allegedly attacked two scooter-borne youths with bricks in Rohini Sector 5 and fled with the two-wheeler and a bag containing Rs 4 lakh cash which they were carrying.
Based on a tip-off, the police arrested Sumeet yesterday, a native of Gohana in Haryana's Sonepat district, from northwest Delhi's Pitampura area. Efforts are on to nab his associates, DCP (northwest) Vijay Singh said.
