Lost phone
Hoysala cops help student recover lost phone within hours in Bengaluru Bengaluru: A city college student's quick thinking and timely action by the city police helped recover her lost iPhone Pro Max within hours after it went missing outside St Joseph's College for Commerce on Brigade Road Wednesday morning. The first-year BCom student, Saanvi, realised she had accidentally dropped her phone near the college gate. She immediately approached the college authorities and accessed CCTV footage, which showed a street sweeper picking up an object from the pavement opposite the gate and placing it in his pocket. She recorded the footage on her friend's phone. Using the ‘Find My Phone' feature from a friend's mobile, she tracked the device's location to Ayyappa Garden in Viveknagar, 5km away from her college. She and her friends then went to the area and showed the CCTV clip to local residents, asking if they recognised the man. But in vain. She then dialled 112 (polic...