India, Dec. 4 -- Police have arrested two men in Gurugram for stealing a car last month because they wanted to "look rich" at a wedding they were going to attend, police said on Wednesday.

Police identified the two suspects as Pankaj Kumar, 28, from Banka village, Hathras, and his friend Sandeep Kumar, 37 from Khutipuri Brahman, Hathras. They both work at different private firms in Gurugram.

On the night of November 1, they walked into a wedding celebration in Sector 52 in a bid to steal a vehicle.

There, police said, Sandeep, posing as a parking attendant, approached a guest who had arrived in a Mahindra Scorpio. He told the car owner that there was a traffic jam in the back and he would park the car for him.

Once the owner handed ov...