Honest Action | Hyderabad autodriver wins hearts by returning lost bag with valuables

Hyderabad: Autorickshaw driver Md Fareed won many hearts in the city on Thursday as news spread of how he returned a bag containing valuables that was left in his vehicle by two passengers in the morning.  

Anup Dhage, a physical therapist, and his sister came down from New York to perform their father’s last rites after he died of Covid-19 in a local hospital. While they were at the hospital to claim the body, they realised that their bag, which contained over '1 lakh, gold ornaments and some dollars, as also their passport, was lost.

Dhage and his sister hired the autorickshaw from their residence at Himayatnagar to a hospital at Chapel Road, Nampally.

As soon as they realised the bag was missing, they informed the security officer at the hospital and rushed to Abids police station to lodge a complaint. As they were about to enter the police station, they got a call from their neighbour saying an autorickshaw driver had come with a bag saying the passengers from this home had left it in his vehicle. All items in the bag were intact.

Dhage said, “He is a ‘farishta’ (an angel).” He added, “My father, Ananth Kishan Dhage, was 83 years old. He has been reading Deccan Chronicle for the past 70 years, it was his favorite daily.”