City police commissioner A K Viswanathan rewarded autorickshaw driver Parthiban

CHENNAI: An autorickshaw driver has handed over to police a bag with 3.8 lakh that a passenger had left behind on Thursday. The passenger was going to buy a car when he forgot the bag in the vehicle.

City police commissioner A K Viswanathan lauded and rewarded autorickshaw driver Parthiban, who took the bag with the cash to the Koyambedu CMBT police station.

Mohammed Azharuddin, 27, a resident of Tuticorin, had taken the autorickshaw with a friend from Chinmaya Nagar on Wednesday evening. He forgot to take his laptop bag from the autorickshaw when he alighted near an automobile showroom near Rohini theatre in Koyambedu.

After dropping the passengers, Parthiban had driven a distance when he saw the bag on the backseat. He opened it and found cash in it. Parthiban told police that he went back and searched for the passengers where he had dropped him, and when he couldn’t find them, took the bag to the police station.

In the meantime, Azharuddin had filed a police complaint about his missing bag. After verifying his claim, police handed over the money. Azharuddin, too, rewarded Parthiban for his honesty.

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