Archive · 14 Aug 2026
Eight-Member Motorcycle Theft Gang Arrested, 13 Bikes Recovered in Markapuram
Some grown-ups in a place called Markapuram in India were taking other people's motorcycles without asking.
The police found the group and stopped them.
The group had eight people in it.
They had taken 13 motorcycles.
The motorcycles are worth a lot of money, about 17 lakh rupees.
The group broke a small lock on the motorcycles and started the engines using wires.
They hid the stolen motorcycles in two nearby towns.
Police caught them while they were riding three motorcycles.
Now the stolen motorcycles are back with the police, and the group has been arrested.
Markapuram district police arrested an eight-member interstate motorcycle theft gang on Friday.
Police recovered 13 stolen motorcycles worth around 17 lakh rupees from the gang.
The accused allegedly stole parked motorcycles by breaking side locks and connecting wires to start them.
The thefts took place between February 4 and August 13 across districts in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The gang was arrested at Y-junction in Kambham while travelling on three motorcycles.
- Who
- Markapuram district police arrested eight men: Pasupuleti Rasool, Bathula Srihari, Bathula Srinu, Anneboyina Akhil Kumar, Sriram Prasanna Kumar, Dudekula Babu, Juturi Immanuel, and Dudekula Sadiq.
- What
- An eight-member interstate motorcycle theft gang was arrested and 13 stolen motorcycles worth around 17 lakh rupees were recovered.
- When
- The arrests were made on Friday; the thefts took place between February 4 and August 13.
- Where
- The gang was arrested at Y-junction in Kambham; thefts occurred in Prakasam, Nellore and Bapatla districts of Andhra Pradesh and Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana.
- Why
- The accused allegedly stole parked motorcycles by breaking their side locks and starting them with connected wires, then hid the vehicles in Bestavaripeta and Markapuram.
- Gang members arrested
- 8
- Motorcycles recovered
- 13
- Value of recovered motorcycles
- Around 17 lakh rupees
- Theft period
- February 4 to August 13
- Arrest location
- Y-junction, Kambham
- Theft method
- Breaking side locks and connecting wires to start bikes
- Police unit
- Markapuram district police
- Superintendent of Police
- V. Harshavardhan Raju