India, May 30 -- Power outages triggered by rain, overloading, broken tree branches falling on power lines and scheduled maintenance work disrupted electricity supply across several parts of Gurugram from Thursday night to Friday evening, residents and officials said.

Residents reported prolonged and repeated outages in parts of Old Gurugram, including Sheetla Colony and Ashok Vihar, sectors along Dwarka Expressway, and several blocks of DLF Phase I, II and III.

In DLF areas, a scheduled shutdown for maintenance of the 66 kV substation in DLF Q-Block led to an outage lasting around one-and-a-half hours on Friday evening.

Dilip Mukherjee, a resident of Sheetla Colony, said electricity remained unavailable for over five hours in his area...