Three people nabbed in connection with stealing high end bikes, were identified as Saurabh and Aman both in their early twenties and a 17-year-old boy by the Mangolpuri Police on December 24.
Police said that they have recovered 8 motorcycles from their possession.
Police said that the three took to stealing high end bikes across Delhi in order to to impress their girlfriends.
Once they were bored with the high end motorcycles, they even rented the machines to their friends and people involved in petty crimes in their vicinity. The accused revealed that they have been stealing motorcycles for the past eight months.
SHO Mangolpuri Arvind Kumar’s team nabbed them after a KTM motorcycle was allegedly stolen from the Mangolpuri chowk area in the last week of November.
Once they stole the bikes, they kept the vehicles in the parking lot of nearby buildings. To avoid getting caught, they changed the number plates of the stolen motorcycles, said police on Tuesday.
Police said, theft of luxury bikes in the area has taken place in the past too.
These bikes cost roughly `2.5 lakhs. To ensure that these bikes remained in a good condition, the accused took care of these the machines and handed them over to their close friends.