How Son Used Google Maps to Catch the Person Who Stole his Father’s Phone A young man has resorted to Google Maps to find his lost phone. In a recent incident of mobile phone theft in India, the young man was able to reach the thief through Google Maps.
Raj Bhagat’s father from Tamil Nadu in India was going to Trichy from a place called Nagercoil. For that, his father boarded the train named ‘Nagarcoil-Kacheguda Express‘. At 2 o’clock in the morning, the train was full of passengers. But another person who was riding with her father tried to steal the bag and mobile phone.
However, the feature of location sharing among their family members was enabled. That is, Bhagat could track where his father’s phone is through that feature.
“After realizing that he did not have his bag and phone, my father called me from his friend’s phone and informed me that it was about 4 am. Fortunately, we had location sharing ‘on’ on the phones of the family members,” Bhagat, who is also a software engineer, wrote on X, “and I immediately tracked the location of my father’s mobile. The phone showed the train running on the track near Melapalayam in Tirunelveli. It means that the thief was returning towards Nagercoil by another train.”
As I did not recognize the thief in the crowd, I told my friend that the location shown by Google was correct. I thought that even if the person who steals is in a moment, he will stop somewhere without walking. After about two minutes, the person stopped at the Anna bus stand. In the app, the distance of that person was showing only two meters from us. I quickly looked at the bags of the people around me. The bag carried by the person standing right in front of me had ‘CITU’ written on it. I found out that it was my father’s bag. Because the father is a member of it. And with the help of other people, we were able to recover my father’s stolen phone and bag,” he wrote.
After learning about this incident, most of the X users responded that they were affected by the maps feature. Bhagat said that he had handed over the accused to the police.