In an interesting story, Raj Bhagat Palanichamy, a well known mapper and earth statement specialist in Tamil Nadu, traced a prepare thief who stole his father’s bag and cell phone utilizing the ‘location’ proven on Google Maps.
Particulars of how Palanichamy traced the thief
Sharing particulars of how he tracked the thief, Raj, in a thread on social media platform X, mentioned his father had boarded a sleeper class coach on Nagercoil-Kacheguda Categorical at Nagercoil to journey to Tiruchi previous midnight. A thief had boarded the prepare and after stealing his father’s bag, which had “CITU” written on it, and cell phone. The thief then alighted the prepare in Tirunelveli Junction.
Round 3.51 am, his father had referred to as type a buddy’s telephone to tell him that his bag and telephone have been stolen. “Fortunately, amongst rapid relations we have now location sharing ‘on’ which meant I may observe the placement of cellular. After I checked it, I spotted that the cellular was shifting alongside the observe close to Melapalayam in Tirunelveli so I deduced that the thief was returning again to Nagercoil in one other prepare,” mentioned Raj.
The mapper then referred to as his buddy Babin, who can also be a neighborhood DMK functionary. They each knowledgeable the Nagercoil Railway Police.
“The thief got here to station in Kanniyakumari categorical which was closely crowded and the one indications I had was my dad’s telephone and his black bag. Within the crowd, we misplaced him however I nonetheless was capable of observe him. Based mostly on his actions, I discovered that he exited by the primary gate and took a neighborhood bus which connects Nagercoil railway station with Anna bus stand and Vadasery Christopher bus stand. So we began our chase in bike,” he narrated.
On the Anna bus stand, the Google Maps confirmed a location which was correct to 2 metres! Recognizing the bag, they confronted the thief and recovered the stolen bag and telephone. The native police took him into custody.
Thief didn’t flip off the telephone
“I used to be fortunate that the thief didn’t flip off the telephone by your entire factor, I used to be fortunate that he needed to go by Nagercoil which was my yard, & I used to be fortunate that I knew one thing about maps & find out how to navigate. A lot of you won’t like sharing location, comprehensible however at this time it helped me,” Raj posted sharing the Google Map screenshots on X.