Chhattisgarh Police on Monday arrested 12 persons including a teenage boy in connection with stealing of 50 two-wheelers including bikes and scooters from separate places in the state capital.
Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal told The Pioneer that Deepak Barle, Tilak Vaishnav, Tukaram Sahu, Rakesh Bagh, Tarun Sen, Toshan Kosle alias Lassu, Charan Das Satnami, Dinesh Kumar Nishad, Bhojraj Tandi, Gorkha Mugri, Gopal Bagh and a 17-year-old boy, have been taken into custody.
The first eight are held for stealing two-wheelers in Tikrapara area while four others committed bike theft in DD Nagar area.
Barle and Sahu were nabbed when they were looking for customers to sell the vehicles.
The two named their six other accomplices and told the police that they lifted 36 two-wheelers together and sold them in Odisha, Dhamari and Raipur city.
The police recovered 36 motorcycles from them so far.
In another case of bike theft in DD Nagar area, Tandi and Mugri were held when they were also looking for customers to sell the motorcycles. They named two accomplices including a minor boy.
As many as 14 two-wheelers were seized from the four.