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Wrestler held for killing national-level weightlifter

NEW DELHI: A 29-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a national weightlifting champion in Agra in September has been arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi police.

Earlier this week, the Crime Branch received a tip-off that Narinder, who was allegedly involved in the murder of weightlifting champion Naveen, would come to the Civil Lines metro railway station to meet his accomplices on Tuesday. Subsequently a team under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police Sanjay Bhatia laid a trap and arrested him the same evening. During interrogation, Narinder allegedly confessed to having murdered Naveen along with his accomplices Nanhey, Bholu and Ashok.

He purportedly disclosed that someone who met him through a woman with whom he had illicit relations had promised to pay Rs. 5 lakh for killing the weightlifter. After receiving the advance sum of Rs. 1 lakh,

Narinder and his accomplices intercepted Naveen while he was on his way to his office on a motorcycle on September 5. They allegedly beat him up and then shot him with a country-made firearm.

Naveen worked as an upper division clerk with the Northern Railway. He had been adjudged Delhi State champion four times and was preparing for the national championships to be held in December.

According to the police, Narinder is a State level wrestler. He was earlier arrested in a murder case in which he allegedly abducted a man at Bahadurgarh and murdered him at Rohtak in Haryana. For the past three years he was running a Blueline bus on contract on route 764 -- between Najafgarh and Nehru Place -- in the Capital.

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