India, March 15 -- A 25-year-old man and his 23-year-old partner have been arrested for allegedly targeting pedestrians and snatching their belongings in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar and Hauz Khas.

According to police,Vishal Gupta and Shivani Murmu would target people in crowded places such as flyovers, markets, and parks and snatch their mobile phones and jewellery before fleeing on a motorcycle.

The two -- named Bunty and Babli by the investigators due to the parallels with the film -- were arrested on Tuesday, a day after a phone snatching was reported in Hauz Khas.

The complainant Rohit Singh, 29, a resident of Sonipat in Haryana, reported that his mobile phone was snatched on March 9 by a man and a woman who arrived on a motorcycle...