TTE returns jewellery left behind by passenger

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Preeti Patil forgot her purse on her seat in a bid to quickly alight from train at Maninagar

By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Tuesday, December 22, 2009  (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2009122220091222025132188a97b3afa)

Preeti Patil cannot stop praising the honesty of Rajiv Mishra, a Travelling Ticket Examiner on Navjeevan Express. He found her bag containing gold jewellery on the train and returned it to the station master at Kalupur railway station on Monday.
The train was coming from Chennai to Ahmedabad. Mishra got on the train from Surat. He was checking the ticket of passengers in Act first class coach number A1. The train had just crossed Maninagar when he spotted a small bag in a corner seat.
Mishra said, “I asked passengers sitting in nearby seats if the bag belonged to them. They answered in the negative.”
The TTE slid open the chain a bit. One glance revealed the bag contained gold jewellery. “Without revealing the contents of the bag, I went around the entire compartment asking if the bag belonged to anyone. But no one claimed ownership. So, I handed it over to the station master at the Ahmedabad railway station,” he said.
The station master opened the bag. It contained a thick gold chain with pendant, Rs 500 in cash and a ticket for seat number 27 and 28. It had been issued for travel from Bhusaval to Ahmedabad. The railway chart revealed that one of the passengers name was Preeti Patil.
The officials were trying to trace Preeti when two women came to the station and asked to meet the station master. It was Preeti and her friend who got down at Maninagar. As the station was an unofficial stop, the two got down in a hurry, forgetting the purse. When they realised their mistake, they rushed to the next stop: Kalupur.
The station master asked them to describe the bag. After verifying their identities, he handed over the bag. On seeing her valuables restored, Preeti burst into tears. She left after the authorities noted down her statement. Mishra said, “The bag contained gold worth Rs 30,000. We may feel it is a small chain but it was of great value to the owner. As a TTE, it was my duty to hand over the bag to the rightful authority. People trust us to do the right thing and I am glad that the woman got her chain back.”

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