Pune man's Rs 70,000 phone found and returned by stranger who had a lesson to give
India Today
A Pune resident's experience after losing a pricey smartphone during a bike ride has captured attention online, as a stranger returned the device without expecting any reward.
After accidentally dropping his Rs 70,000 phone on a road in Pune, a man spent hours in panic, until an unknown Good Samaritan answered his call and returned it.
In a now-viral post on Reddit, the user recounted how he accidentally dropped his Samsung S25 while riding home in Keshav Nagar on February 12 around 8:30 pm.
“Instant panic,” he wrote. Within minutes, he retraced his route, scanning the road and borrowing phones from passersby to call his number. “That sinking feeling when you realise your Rs 70k phone might be gone is unreal.”
When repeated calls went unanswered, he remotely locked the device using Google’s Find My Device feature and even visited a local police station, where he was advised to file an online complaint.
Living alone and without a backup phone, he returned home feeling helpless. Using his laptop, he emailed his girlfriend and asked her to keep trying his number. At 10:30 pm, there was a breakthrough, someone had answered.
By 11 pm, speaking through his building guard’s phone, he connected with the man who had found the device lying on the road. Since it was late, they agreed to meet the next morning. True to his word, the stranger returned the phone without asking for any reward.
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