The Delhi Police on Monday arrested two notorious criminals after a brief scuffle with police team in Delhi's Dwarka area. The accused used to target car parked outside the Gyms in Delhi and Haryana. Posing as a costumer, the accused used to go inside and used to steal the car keys from the counters.

The accused have been identified as Pramod (30) a resident of village Atta in district Bulandshehar Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Praveen (29) alias Doctor a resident of Delhi's Najafgarh. With their arrest Delhi Police has claimed to have solved 9 cases of theft and robbery registered against the accused at Delhi and Haryana.

According to Anto Alphonse, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Dwarka district, tip off regarding the duo accused was received that they would be coming to Sector-23 Dwarka in a stolen Maruti Swift Desire car following which a trap was laid.

"Police team signalled the driver of that Swift car to stop but the driver in order to flee from the spot, brushed the car with the tree trunk. Meantime police manage to trap the car from all sides. The driver identified as Pramod started to scuffle with the Sub Inspector Vivek and during this SI sustained minor injury on his right hand but was soon overpowered. The team manged to apprehend both the car occupants," said the DCP.

"During interrogation, they disclosed that they were involved in more than 8-9 cases of auto lifting from Delhi and Haryana. They had disposed 7 cars in Meerut and Sambhal (UP) to Daud and Saddam. They used to mainly target car park outside the gym in Delhi and Haryana.

The duo used to pose as customer and used to steal car keys from the counter of the gym," said the DCP.

"On the instance of the accused one Creta car stolen from Sector-5, Gurugram, and one Pulsar bike stolen from the area of Palam village have been recovered," said the DCP adding that further investigation is going on.