Rail passengers return wallet containing Rs 45K to owner
Nilesh Rathod and Yogesh Jadav traced the owner, an engine driver, to Ratlam with help from railway officials and called him to Ahmedabad
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Sunday, November 08, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2009110820091108043212906a0d186c8)
A good Samaritan returned Rs 45,000 hard cash to a railway engine driver after finding the latter’s wallet under his compartment seat. Siraj Mohammed never thought he would get his money. But Yogesh Jadav, who found the wallet, was determined to trace the owner of the wallet and personally hand it over to him.
Yogesh and his cousin Nilesh Jadav were returning from Darjeeling in Guwahati-Okha Express on October 29. When the train reached Vadodara, Nilesh pulled out his luggage from under the seat and saw a wallet lying there.
As the wallet belonged to neither of them, Nilesh asked fellow passengers if they had lost theirs. No one responded. He and Yogesh decided to give the wallet to the ticket examiner. They had still not counted the cash. All they saw was a bunch of Rs 1,000 notes, a locomotive licence, a PAN card and a salary slip.
Tracking wallet’s owner
Fellow passengers advised them against giving it to the examiner, stating there was no guarantee the money would reach the person to whom the wallet belonged to. Nilesh got down at Vadodara station, handing over the wallet to Yogesh.
Salary slip comes handy
At Ahmedabad station, Yogesh got in touch with his cousin Ashok Sonavane, chief reservation officer, who then contacted divisional operating manager J K Agrawal. Based on the salary slip, they found out the name of the wallet owner — Siraj Mohammed. Railway authorities located Siraj and asked him to come to Ahmedabad to collect the wallet.
He reached the city on Wednesday and was handed over the wallet by Yogesh in front of Agrawal. “Siraj was in tears. He could not believe he had actually got back all his money. He was so thankful that he offered me a Rs 500 note. But if money is what I had wanted, I would not have returned that wallet to him,” said Yogesh, who works with Techno Mac Engineers in Amraiwadi.
Siraj, a goods engine driver, had apparently lost the wallet while sleeping in the stationary train hours before Yogesh and Nilesh boarded it. The money in his wallet was meant to be returned to his relative who had loaned him the amount two months ago for his daughter’s wedding.
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Sunday, November 08, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2009110820091108043212906a0d186c8)
A good Samaritan returned Rs 45,000 hard cash to a railway engine driver after finding the latter’s wallet under his compartment seat. Siraj Mohammed never thought he would get his money. But Yogesh Jadav, who found the wallet, was determined to trace the owner of the wallet and personally hand it over to him.
Yogesh and his cousin Nilesh Jadav were returning from Darjeeling in Guwahati-Okha Express on October 29. When the train reached Vadodara, Nilesh pulled out his luggage from under the seat and saw a wallet lying there.
As the wallet belonged to neither of them, Nilesh asked fellow passengers if they had lost theirs. No one responded. He and Yogesh decided to give the wallet to the ticket examiner. They had still not counted the cash. All they saw was a bunch of Rs 1,000 notes, a locomotive licence, a PAN card and a salary slip.
Tracking wallet’s owner
Fellow passengers advised them against giving it to the examiner, stating there was no guarantee the money would reach the person to whom the wallet belonged to. Nilesh got down at Vadodara station, handing over the wallet to Yogesh.
Salary slip comes handy
At Ahmedabad station, Yogesh got in touch with his cousin Ashok Sonavane, chief reservation officer, who then contacted divisional operating manager J K Agrawal. Based on the salary slip, they found out the name of the wallet owner — Siraj Mohammed. Railway authorities located Siraj and asked him to come to Ahmedabad to collect the wallet.
He reached the city on Wednesday and was handed over the wallet by Yogesh in front of Agrawal. “Siraj was in tears. He could not believe he had actually got back all his money. He was so thankful that he offered me a Rs 500 note. But if money is what I had wanted, I would not have returned that wallet to him,” said Yogesh, who works with Techno Mac Engineers in Amraiwadi.
Siraj, a goods engine driver, had apparently lost the wallet while sleeping in the stationary train hours before Yogesh and Nilesh boarded it. The money in his wallet was meant to be returned to his relative who had loaned him the amount two months ago for his daughter’s wedding.
