After a tip-off from a source, the Mumbai Police on Wednesday arrested three thieves who robbed jeans worth rupees 1 lakh 75 thousand in order to buy drugs.

The three thieves, identified as Sandip Suresh Gaikwad, 27, Abdul Hussain Shaikh and Vinod Ramesh Oghania, 28, used to commit robberies to purchase drugs. According to the police, the accused had robbed garments worth Rs 1 lakh 75 thousand from a cloth market in Khar, as they had no money to buy drugs.