Dozens of mobile phones stolen during power cut at Gurugram's Sunburn Festival

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More than two dozen mobile phones were stolen at a music festival being held at Backyard Sports Club in Gurugram, police said on Tuesday...

Police apprehended 12 suspects from the spot and recovered two stolen mobiles from them, they said.. Sector 65 Police Station late Sunday night received complaints from seven people, who claimed their mobile phones were stolen from the festival...

In a prompt action, police apprehended 12 suspects and recovered two stolen mobiles from their possession," Siddhant Jain, DCP, South, said.. Himanshu Vijay Singh, a resident of Noida in Uttar Pradesh, said both he and his wife Awantika Poddar lost their mobile phones at the festival...

In his complaint to the police, he named Lakshay Rawal, Arjun Kachroo, Soumya Jyoti Halder, Sarthak Sharma, and Karan Chauhan as only a handful of those who lost their phones at the music festival...

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