Man gets back smartphone as thief cannot operate it

Wonders will never cease found out a man who lost his smartphone in a shop and was returned it a few days later by the person who stole it as he could not operate the device.

Police said on Monday that the man left his mobile phone worth Rs 45,000 by mistake at a sweet shop at Jamalpur in East Burdwan district on September 4. The phone was soon stolen from the shop counter where it was lying by a 22-year- old person.

The phone owner had lodged a complaint with the police as the phone could not be traced at the sweet shop, a police . official said.

He had tried to make a call in his number from another phone but found it switched off, the police said.