7 held for robbing bus passengers returning from wedding party

Seven persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in robbing people returning in a bus from a wedding party.
Police reconstructed the sequence of events and marked out three separate zones -- the area where the bus was replaced, the Devli turn and the place where the vehicle was accosted for carrying out minute search -- for clues.
A special team, led by Inspector Kuldeep Singh, SHO Neb Sarai, was constituted to crack the case.
While scouting the area, the team got inputs about an unattended auto-rickshaw, few metres away from where the bus passengers were robbed.
Also police was informed by one Raj Kumar that his auto had been missing.

However, when police asked Kumar to join the probe, he did not turn up and switched off his cell phone. He was later traced as the police analysed his call detail records.

Upon being confronted, Kumar broke down and confessed to his involvement. Other accused were also arrested yesterday based on his inputs, police said.
Kumar, during interrogation, said he had received information about the 'baraat' bus returning late night from the Swaroop Nagar area and he and his associates hatched a conspiracy the auto-rickshaw was used for stopping the bus.
Members of the wedding party were allegedly robbed in the early hours yesterday in south Delhi's Devli area.

As many as 45 people, including 24 women, were returning to Sangam Vihar after attending a wedding ceremony in Swaroop Nagar. One of the passengers said an auto-rickshaw was used to waylay their bus around 2.15 AM and three men from it boarded the bus.
They attacked the bus driver and snatched jewellery and cash worth lakhs of rupees from the bus occupants at a gunpoint.