MUMBAI: With some inventive sleuthing, a 19-year-old instructor from Andheri managed to track down the man who had stolen her Android cellular phone. The girl used another handset to track each online task of the thief and were given the Railway Protection Force (RPF) to nab him just as he was once leaving town by means of train. RPF team of workers handed over Selvaraj Shetty (32) to the Dadar GRP outpost the place a case of theft was once registered in opposition to him on Monday.
Zeenat Banu Haq, a Marol resident, teaches at a preschool in the same neighbourhood. On Sunday, after coming back from a go back and forth to Malad, she could not in finding her Xiaomi 4A smartphone. “I couldn’t recollect the place my telephone went lacking,” Zeenat instructed TOI.
She logged onto her Google account and turned at the “location” on her stolen telephone. There is a section called “My Activity” in a Google account the place one can view and set up things reminiscent of web sites visited, videos watched and searches executed.
I used another Android handset to log onto my Google account and keep a monitor of the actions executed using the stolen telephone. I found that the thief had looked for songs from the Rajinikanth starrer ‘Kaala’. He used the SHAREit app, updated WhatsApp messenger and accessed Facebook. Then, he downloaded an app for booking railway tickets,” said Haq.
As the battery standing of the stolen telephone might be seen, Haq accumulated from the draining battery that the handset was once being excessively used. The man then booked a Dadar-Tiruvannamalai railway ticket for Sunday and took a screenshot of the PNR number and seat main points. He also took an image of himself.
“Through Google Photos, I accessed his ticket main points in addition to his photo. A snappy internet seek confirmed that the train was once Puducherry Express and it might leave from Dadar Terminus round nine.30pm on Sunday. I left home and headed immediately for Dadar Terminus the place I found RPF team of workers and narrated the whole thing,” said Haq. The younger girl continued to track the thief ’s task because the “‘location” possibility of her stolen telephone was once on.
She could see the bridge that he took to reach Dadar Terminus. The RPF waited after the train arrived but the man didn’t arrive instantly.
“When he finally arrived and took his seat, the RPF started to quiz him. My telephone was once discovered but he claimed that it have been mortgaged with him. By then, I had damaged down as I was scared. But the RPF asked a lot of questions and he and the girl he was once travelling with gave contradictory answers,” said Haq.
Zeenat Banu Haq, a Marol resident, teaches at a preschool in the same neighbourhood. On Sunday, after coming back from a go back and forth to Malad, she could not in finding her Xiaomi 4A smartphone. “I couldn’t recollect the place my telephone went lacking,” Zeenat instructed TOI.
She logged onto her Google account and turned at the “location” on her stolen telephone. There is a section called “My Activity” in a Google account the place one can view and set up things reminiscent of web sites visited, videos watched and searches executed.
I used another Android handset to log onto my Google account and keep a monitor of the actions executed using the stolen telephone. I found that the thief had looked for songs from the Rajinikanth starrer ‘Kaala’. He used the SHAREit app, updated WhatsApp messenger and accessed Facebook. Then, he downloaded an app for booking railway tickets,” said Haq.
As the battery standing of the stolen telephone might be seen, Haq accumulated from the draining battery that the handset was once being excessively used. The man then booked a Dadar-Tiruvannamalai railway ticket for Sunday and took a screenshot of the PNR number and seat main points. He also took an image of himself.
“Through Google Photos, I accessed his ticket main points in addition to his photo. A snappy internet seek confirmed that the train was once Puducherry Express and it might leave from Dadar Terminus round nine.30pm on Sunday. I left home and headed immediately for Dadar Terminus the place I found RPF team of workers and narrated the whole thing,” said Haq. The younger girl continued to track the thief ’s task because the “‘location” possibility of her stolen telephone was once on.
She could see the bridge that he took to reach Dadar Terminus. The RPF waited after the train arrived but the man didn’t arrive instantly.
“When he finally arrived and took his seat, the RPF started to quiz him. My telephone was once discovered but he claimed that it have been mortgaged with him. By then, I had damaged down as I was scared. But the RPF asked a lot of questions and he and the girl he was once travelling with gave contradictory answers,” said Haq.
Mumbai teen tracks down man who stole her phone
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August 09, 2018
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