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Bengaluru: At a time and age where one would not usually expect to retrieve a Rs 10 currency note which may have slipped out of one's pocket, a man in Bengaluru defied the odds. In what can only be deemed as a truly bonafide gesture, a bus conductor with the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) found a bag containing Rs 1 lakh and instead of keeping the amount for himself, decided to return it to its rightful owner.

All of it started after a passenger who has been identified as Subhadra got off from a BMTC bus at Esteem Mall but forgot her bag containing Rs 1 lakh in cash, reported Bangalore Mirror. Yellapa Betagiri, a conductor with the transport corporation found Subhadra's bag and the cash inside it.

By the time, the bag's rightful owner obtained Yellapa's number from the BMTC airport help desk and informed him that the bag he found belonged to her. However, the bus had reached Cole's Road from Hebbal. Yellapa told Subhadra that he could meet her at Whitefield which was the bus' next stop.

Speaking to the publication, Yellapa said that he identified Subhadra through her Aadhar card which she had forgotten inside the bag along with the cash and some debit and credit cards. An official with BMTC was quoted as saying that in the past year, the corporation has witnessed about 96 such instances where drivers and conductors have exhibited honesty in returning lost luggage. He added that the corporation rewards and appreciates such gestures by its employees.

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