HYDERABAD: Bachupally police arrested eight habitual offenders on Saturday and seized nine mobile phones and Rs 1,800 in cash from them.
A person named Ballari Santosh had filed a complaint in March stating that he was waiting for a friend near VNR College, when a duo riding a bike came towards him at high-speed, knocked him down and snatched away his phone.
Based on CCTV footage, cops identified the accused, Kanakala Vinay, 22, Sana Mahesh Kumar, 19, and Kakumani Manideep, 23, working as a delivery boy, painter and a supplier at a liquor store, respectively, and sent them to judicial custody.