Eatery staff turn robbers to buy liquor in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Desperate to buy alcohol, three men, including two restaurant managers, took to crime during the lockdown.
As the restaurants were closed, they planned to rob a man at knifepoint. The duo also roped in an alcoholic relative. However, they were arrested after the very first crime — they had robbed a delivery boy of his mobile phone in Amar Colony.
The accused have been identified as Sumit Kumar (25), Sushant Kumar (24) and Nishant Kumar (21). “They were arrested within 48 hours and the mobile phone was also recovered,” said R P Meena, South East DCP. Nishant and Sushant are brothers and worked at two different restaurant as managers, one in CP and the other in Zamrudpur, while Sumit worked as a salesman at a hardware shop. “All of them are first-time offenders,” said Meena.
They told police that after liquor shops opened, they wanted to drink but didn’t have money. On Thursday, they reached near a park in Aashtha Kunj and stopped the delivery boy on the pretext of asking a direction.
As he didn’t have any money, they took his mobile phone. During the scuffle, they stabbed him on the back with a kitchen knife and ran back home. A case was registered on the basis of the victim’s statement.