New Delhi: Five men, who used to rob people attending marriage functions, were arrested here, police said on Tuesday.
The five accused were identified as Rahul (22), Shadab alias Guddu (22), Deepak (22), Ubesh (23) and Murtaza (19), they added.
The police said that the accused would join marriage processions posing as guests and mingle with the crowd and identify those people loaded with cash and accost and rob them.
On the intervening night of May 15 and 16, a man had boarded a bus and was busy calling his guests on the phone inviting them for his son's marriage when he was allegedly robbed in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura. Someone snatched his bag containing cash and other jewellery and ran away, he told police.
In another incident, a man said that on May 8, he was robbed of his bag containing cash and jewellery during a marriage function of his brother-in-law on the Mandoli Jail, the police said.
The bag containing cash and jewellery was kept with him. When the wedding procession reached near the venue, there was a power cut and two persons came there and snatched his bag, he told the police.
