Mumbai auto driver returns bag full of cash, documents in Borivli

Auto driver Sukai Singh with Tanvi

An autorickshaw driver Sukai Singh, 50, returned a passenger's bag containing expensive clothes, documents including passport, PAN card, Aadhaar card and cash, in Borivli, on Saturday. A 29-year-old Surat-based banker Tanvi Dumasia had visited Mumbai to celebrate her cousin's birthday and forgot her bag in an auto on Saturday. The good Samaritan auto driver, who found the bag on the backseat, visited two-three addresses where he had dropped off passengers.

"I hired an auto from Kastur Park at Borivli West, to go to Gorai. I was carrying two bags, and while getting down I forgot to take one of them. While taking the ferry I realised a bag was missing. I rushed to where I got off the auto, but couldn't find it," Dumasia said. "Later, I rushed to Borivli police station and registered a complaint. The cops started checking CCTV footage of the Gorai creek area. However, in the meantime, my cousin received a call from her society watchman that an autorickshaw driver was waiting at the gate to return the lost bag. We rushed to her society and found Singh waiting outside with my bag. I am really thankful for his kind gesture and have also rewarded him with cash," Dumasia added.

Speaking with mid-day Singh said, "In the morning, I plied on three-four different routes. At around 12 pm, I stopped the vehicle for a tea break and saw a bag on the backseat. I rushed to three places - MHB Colony, Yogi Nagar and Kastur Park. After visiting two societies, I finally found the bag owner at a building in Kastur Park. There, I enquired with the society watchman about the missing bag, who then called the secretary. The bag owner was at the police station. I felt good after returning the bag. She also rewarded me."

Inspector Vijay Madye of Borivli police station said, "Before we could trace the auto driver, he reached the building gate to return the bag. None of the valuables was missing."

50 years
Age of the auto driver