The Kalachowki police in Parel traced and returned a mobile phone to its owner within 30 minutes of being approached. They later learnt that the owner was evergreen filmmaker V Shantaram’s granddaughter-in-law.

Laxmi Shantaram left her mobile phone in a kaali-peeli taxi that dropped her home on Wednesday night. “Around 9 pm, I left work at our Raj Kamal studio in Parel. On reaching home, I realised I had left my phone in the taxi. I rushed downstairs, but it had left. I used another phone to call on my number, but nobody answered,” she told mid-day.