Chandigarh, Feb. 8 -- A 20-year-old BA student was robbed of her mobile phone by three unidentified youths near the Sector 42 petrol pump on Thursday evening.

The victim, Deepika Sharma, a resident of Nirwana Greens-1, Kharar, Mohali, and a student of Post Graduate Government College for Girls (PGGCG), Sector 42, said the incident took place around 4.30 pm on February 5 while she was returning home from college.

According to her complaint, she had crossed the petrol pump and was walking from the cycle track towards ISBT-43. After finishing a call with her mother, she was putting the phone into the left pocket of her jacket when one of the three youths walking behind her suddenly snatched it.

The accused fled towards the nearby forest a...