Delhi Police on January 23 arrested five members of a gang of thieves specialising in theft at marriage venues with the help of their juvenile assistant
Gangs of thieves have now started targeting high-end hotels in the Capital. On Sunday, two women dressed in finery allegedly fled with a bag of jewellery and valuables from a wedding at a five-star hotel in the Lutyens’ Delhi. Police said the women were captured entering the ballroom on CCTV cameras installed in the hotel.
Police received a complaint from the host, who had organised the wedding ceremony for his daughter at Shangri-La’s Eros Hotel. The complainant’s wife came to know about the theft around 11:30 pm, when she realised that the valuables were missing from her bag.
“She told the police that she had the bag, but a gold chain, a diamond ring set in gold, an i-Phone 6 and 20-25 pieces of silver coins were missing. Hotel security was immediately alerted, who identified two suspicious women exiting the ballroom with a bag. After the security failed to trace the suspects, the complainants approached the police,” a senior police officer said.
Cops are now probing whether it was the handiwork of the same gang that had decamped with jewellery, Rs 7 lakh in cash, and phone of a judicial officer in the Juvenile Justice Board from his nephew’s wedding in the Civil Lines area in December.
Last month, the police had claimed to have busted a gang of thieves that targeted wedding venues with the help of juvenile assistants, whom they employed as bonded labourers.
SIMILAR ROBBERY
- Delhi Police on January 23 arrested five members of a gang of thieves specialising in theft at marriage venues with the help of their juvenile assistant.
- Police said they believe this was the gang involved in over 100 thefts from marriage venues in posh localities in South Delhi and other states. So far, 15 such cases of robbery have been worked out by the police.
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