Rickshaw man drives 2 hrs to find owner of forgotten bag
MUMBAI: Honesty is still alive. A 24-year-old rickshaw driver, Guddu Gupta, who found a passenger’s forgotten bag in this vehicle, drove around for at least a couple hours to track down its rightful owners on Saturday.
Gupta found a bag in his autorickshaw around 7.30pm on Saturday. He had ferried a couple, Mukhtar Ahmed Idrisi and his wife, from Kurla railway terminus to Bandra-Kurla Complex but Gupta was unsure whose bag it was. It later turned out that the bag contained Rs3,000, gold jewellery, bank documents and insurance papers.
Gupta headed to Bharat Nagar in Bandra-Kurla Complex where he had dropped the couple. Officials of Bandra-Kurla Complex police station accompanied Gupta to help locate the couple who were finally traced around 10pm. “I was not sure I would be able to find the passengers,” Gupta told.
The Idrisis, who had returned from their hometown, had hired Gupta’s rickshaw around 7pm, said senior police inspector Kundalik Nigade. “We realized that we had forgotten the bag after we stepped into our house. Around 10pm, we got a pleasant surprise when a few policeman along with the rickshaw driver came looking for us,” said Mukhtar. “Gupta simply refused to accept the reward we wanted to give him for his honesty.”
Sub-inspector Subhash Patil said that the forgotten bag was spotted by a passenger who hailed the rickshaw minutes after the couple.
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