iPhone Gives Away Location of Carjackers

After three young men pulled off an almost perfect robbery — holding the victims at gunpoint and whisking away their car and valuables on National Highway II near Faridabad — it was a mobile phone kept in the car’s tissue box that gave them away.

Shakti Singh (22) was arrested late on Saturday night from Sondhi village of Bulandshahar — the police had been on his trail within 12 hours of the incident. His accomplices — Jaidev and Bhola — are yet to be traced.

The victims were US student Sarah Fantasia (18), wildlife photographers Rakesh Sahai and Gagan Mehta.

Late on Friday night, the three were on their way back from Agra, when the hold-up occurred.

Mehta’s Maruti Swift, Rs 70,000 in cash, two laptops, seven mobile phones, a Nikon and a Cannon camera, ATM cards and Sarah’s visa and passport were all taken away.

What the miscreants had failed to notice was Sahai’s iPhone, which had been on vibration mode and kept in the tissue box.