The accused, identified as Wasim (3O) and Dinesh (31), are the members of a robbery gang allegedly headed by one Sadab alias Huzoor Bhai, and were involved in more than a hundred robberies in the city, police said.
Acting on a tip-off that the duo was to assemble at Jagjeet Nagar area of north Delhi for another robbery, the police laid a trap and arrested them today, police said.
"During interrogation it has been revealed that they along with their associates had robbed one businessman of his bag -- containing around Rs 70,000 cash, a gold jewellery article, a diamond set, a packet of diamonds and two mobile phones -- at gunpoint in central Delhi earlier this year," said the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
Police have recovered 29 robbed mobile phones from their possession, police added.