Desire to make quick money ended for one youth, when he was arrested by police while riding a stolen scooty, police said on Wednesday.
20-year-old Momin started working as a delivery boy with e-commerce website Flipkart. Being paid Rs 15,000 a month, Momin was not satisfied. He landed in police net while he was crossing the New Friend's Colony area on January 1 on a stolen scooty.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said, "Momin was arrested and one country made pistol along with a live cartridge and a Micromax phone was recovered from his possession."
The officer said on the evening of January 1, police personnel on picket duty at the CV Raman marg signalled Momin to stop, but when he refused to stop, he was overpowered by constables and forced to make a stop, unable to show the documents of the scooty, he was frisked. During enquiry, it was found that Momin had also robbed a phone from Sarita Vihar area.
A Class XI dropout, Momin disclosed that he started working as a delivery boy for a well known online shopping company at Okhla. He was not very happy with his job which required him to meet a target to deliver 80 packets per day and would pay him Rs 15,000 per month for it. He wanted a life without such constant pressure to deliver rather an easy "cool" way of making money.
It was during a birthday party that he said to have met one Ayaan. Ayaan used to clean vehicles in the parking. They discussed about entering the world of crime to make quick money. For this they planned to steal a scooty and arrange a pistol for committing robbery and snatching, said police on Wednesday.
"Ayan arranged a country made pistol and they both stole a scooty from Jamia Nagar on which they would snatch or rob. In furtherance of their plan they both robbed a mobile phone from Sarita Vihar area. They both had by now become very clever and had changed the original number plate of the scooty i.e DL 12S H- 3527 and had affixed a fake number plate of DL-5SBC 1617 to dodge the police," said Biswal.
Police said Momin had become an expert bike rider after working as a delivery boy in Flipkart.
He knew how to speed up and he had good knowledge of the roads as he was quite aware of the topography and dark spots where pedestrian are helpless and vulnerable. They stole a scooty for to commit snatching and robbery on isolated dark spots. They had also arranged a country made pistol to threaten and create fear among the public if someone tried to resist or create a hue and cry.