An engineer using Google Maps managed to trace and recover in a few hours his father’s mobile phone, which had been stolen during a train journey.
Palaniswami, a retired BSNL employee and father of P. Raj Bhagat, a Nagercoil-based civil engineer, and his friend were travelling from Nagercoil to Tiruchi by Nagercoil-Kacheguda Express. They had boarded the train at 1.43 a.m. at Nagercoil Junction, and the coaches were relatively empty.
At 3.51 a.m., Mr. Palaniswami realised that his bag and mobile phone had been stolen. He searched the train and called his son with his friend’s phone to inform his family of the theft.
