A 30-year-old Arjun Awardee and Income Tax Officer’s ‘Sport Utility Vehicle’ (SUV) was stolen by unidentified robbers in Delhi’s Rohini area on Wednesday. Police said that they have registered a FIR and police teams are scanning CCTV footage to trace and nabbed the culprits.
The victim has been identified as Abhishek Verma, a resident of Model Town area, who had won Gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon in men’s compound archery team event along with Rajat Chauhan and Sandeep Kumar. He had also won silver medal in the men’s individual compound event.
According to FIR, on December 4, Verma had went to a relative house in Rohini’s Sector-3 area and had parked Toyota Fortuner car around 10.18 pm in front of the main gate of the house.
“On Thursday morning when I went to look for my car, it was not there where I had parked. Trying to find my car, I asked local residents if they have seen my car but no one had seen it,” Verma stated in his complaint.
“When I checked for CCTV I found that my car was stolen around 1 am following which I informed police about the incident,” said Verma.
“A case under section 379 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at Rohini Sector-3 police station. Police teams have been formed which are scanning CCTV footages in the area to identify the culprits and nab them,” said a senior police official.
On August 15, 2015, he had won a gold medal in the men’s compound individual section at the Archery World Cup Stage-3 in Wroclaw, Poland. Verma had received Arjun Award in year 2014.