In an unexpected event, a group of residents in Delhi threw a birthday party for a young thief who was caught in their house.
The incident was reported from South Delhi, where four burglars tried to break into a flat. Though three of them managed to escape, residents managed to catch the fourth, who was a young boy - as it were, an unaccompanied minor.
The boy started crying after he was caught and told the residents that it was his birthday, although it has not been confirmed whether it was indeed the boy's real birthday or whether this was a ruse by him to excite sympathy.
“He also said that his father died at a young age, and his family has no steady source of income. It was a sad story,” Deepak Madan Deepu, president of the Residents' Welfare Association, told the local Hindi news website, Navbharat Times.
If it was a ruse,. it can be described as only being half successful, because although residents called up neighbors and ordered cake and snacks to celebrate his birthday, they later called the police to hand him over for arrest.
The video, posted on Monday, went viral on social media. The thief, whose name has not been revealed yet because he is a minor, is in custody now. The police are looking for his accomplices.
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