An iPhone, worth around ₹1.16 lakh, that went missing at Meenambakkam Airport was traced within a few hours and handed back to its owner.

Kakarla Manish, 28, son of Narayana Rao, a resident of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, misplaced his iPhone at Chennai Airport on May 29 night. Following this, Manish lodged a complaint with the crime wing of the Meenambakkam police station.

A police team immediately visited the spot and conducted an intensive inquiry. With the help of GPS technology, they traced the location of the mobile phone and proceeded to Egmore Railway Station. An inquiry there revealed that a man found the complainant’s iPhone near the Meenambakkam signal and kept it with him. The missing phone was recovered from him.

After the completion of legal formalities, the recovered phone was handed over to Manish.