The Bandra police, with the help of traffic division traced an expensive mobile phone within an hour of it being stolen on Wednesday. The victim, Burzin Contractor, the deputy branch manager of a private bank, had forgotten it in an auto, from where it was stolen. However, there is no arrest in the case as the banker did not file a complaint.

Contractor had hired an auto at Waterfield Road in Bandra to go to another branch of his bank near Mehboob Studio at 3.50 pm. "When I went inside, I realsied I had left my phone in the waiting auto. When I returned to collect it, the phone was gone," Contractor said. The auto driver did not have any clue about it.