Police in Western UP's Baghpat on Sunday arrested seven people for allegedly stealing clothes from crematoria and graveyards and selling them.
According to the police, a local cloth merchant and his aides used to steal clothes of the dead from crematoria and graveyards and resell these in the market after putting a company trademark.
“The cloth merchant used to give Rs 300 daily to his aides for the act,” the police said.
The arrested people have been identified as cloth merchant Praveen Jain, his son Ashish Jain, nephew Rishabh Jain and aides Raju Sharma, Shravan Sharma, Bablu Kashyap and Shahrukh Khan.