Men on scooter flee with borrowed phone in Chandigarh

Had borrowed the phone to make a phone call.

Two men stole a mobile phone that they had borrowed from a Sector-37 resident to make a phone call on Tuesday night.

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The complainant, Amandeep Jaggi, 27, told the police that he was hauling his motorcycle inside the gate, when two men on a Honda Activa stopped by his house. One of them asked for his mobile phone to make a call.

After Jaggi lent his phone to him, the other man pushed his motorcycle, causing him to fall. Meanwhile, the duo fled with his device.

A case under Sections 379 (theft) and 356 (use of criminal force to commit crime) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the unidentified accused.