Hyderabad: The Chandanagar police arrested five youngsters on charges of stealing bikes parked in front of houses. Four motorcycles, all worth Rs.12 lakh and 11 fake number plates were seized from the possession of the arrested persons.
Following complaints of bike thefts, the police intensified vehicle checking at Lingampalli railway station when two youngsters tried to flee, abandoning their bike. When the police chased and caught them, the youngsters admitted that they had stolen a bike.
On further questioning, the police found that five students were stealing bikes parked in front of the houses. They came to the city in December 2025 from Rajahmundry and were staying in a hostel in Ameerpet.
Since then, the youngsters have been stealing bikes and selling them to persons known in Rajahmundry by fixing fake number plates. They had stolen the bike of a software engineer after it was parked in front of his house in Chandanagar on October 25.
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