New Delhi, 4 males belonging to an notorious gang of wedding ceremony thieves have been arrested from Delhi-Gurugram border right here, police stated on Thursday.
4 members of ‘Band Baja Baraat’ Gang held from Delhi-Gurugram border
Raj Kumar alias Raju, 50, Sumit, 30, Mohit, 19, and Karan, 30, have been arrested from close to Ghitorni Metro station Wednesday, after they have been planning to focus on a marriage, they stated.
In line with Further Commissioner of Police Sanjay Bhatia, the thieves belong to the ‘Band Baja Baraat’ gang, which will get lively through the wedding ceremony season in Delhi and different components of the nation.
Members of the gang, principally from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, used kids or girls to get entry to weddings in posh localities to make off with luggage carrying money or jewels.
The 4 arrested Wednesday hail from Kadiya village of Rajgarh, a area infamous for supplying younger recruits to organised crime syndicates concerned in wedding ceremony thefts throughout India, Deputy Commissioner of Police Vikram Singh stated.
“Known for the practice of ‘renting’ family members to criminal gangs, the natives of Kadiya and Gulkhedi villages often enter into agreements known as ‘Anubandh’, wherein families receive financial compensation for sending their members to participate in theft operations,” Singh in a press assertion stated.
These younger recruits are educated to mix in at wedding ceremony capabilities and steal with out drawing any consideration in direction of them, he stated.
The observe is seen as a type of a social contract, below which poor households are exploited for thefts at weddings, sometimes concentrating on the rich.
The accused throughout interrogation revealed that they principally seemed for baggage containing jewelry or money.
On November 12, Sumit and Karan stole money and valuables from two weddings in outer Delhi’s Alipur.
On November 17, they stole a bag stuffed with money and valuables from one other wedding ceremony at a farmhouse in Maidan Garhi in Chhatarpur space.
Whereas the 2 entered the venue, Raj Kumar and Mohit waited outdoors in a personal taxi and coordinated with them by cellphones.