The Indian equity benchmarks staged strong bounce back on Friday after witnessing one of their worst sessions of the year on the previous day. The Sensex rose as much as 1,604 points or 3 per cent and Nifty 50 index reclaimed its important psychological level of 16,250 after closing at 15,809 in the previous session. The surge in Friday's session came on the back of broad-based buying interest led by heavyweights like Reliance Industries, Infosys, HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and Hindustan Unilever.