But we still have a few good men

MUMBAI: All is not lost. There have been a few good Samaritans who have gone out of their way to return the lost belongings of passengers.
In June, autorickshaw driver Vijay More (34), a resident of Income Tax colony in CBD Belapur, set an example when he returned a bag containing a laptop, an iPod and bank documents to their owner, who had lost all hope of getting them back.
In November 2007, a taxi driver (who did not wish to be named) returned a cellphone belonging to a second year MBA student. Sasidhar Nandigam, the student, had hired a cab near Siddhivinayak temple and was returning home to Ghatkopar with his family in the evening. After reaching home, he realized that he had left behind his phone in the taxi. He searched for the vehicle in the area, but in vain. He also realized that he had kept the mobile on silent mode. After a few hours, he called up on his cellphone and was surprised when the cabbie came on the line and told him that he was on his way to return the phone. When the driver handed him back the mobile, Nandigam tried to tip him, he declined, saying that he was just "doing his duty''.
In another instance, a passenger had forgotten the groom's clothes in a taxi, and the driver went back to the marriage hall to return it.
Shanker Ghadi, an auto driver from Borivli, had recently taken a passenger to Kherwadi in Bandra from where the latter took a taxi to Hinduja Hospital. The passenger had forgotten important medical reports/MRI scan report, which the driver returned to the owner. "The documents were of no use to me; I could have thrown them. But they were important for the patient, whose recovery was dependent on these reports,'' he said.