Auto driver returns laptop bag to NRI

HYDERABAD: A honest auto driver on Tuesday returned a handbag containing a costly laptop, credit cards and other documents to a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) who forgot to collect it while getting down from the vehicle at the Secunderabad railway station on Monday night.The NRI Md Yousuf S Jilani is working as an analyst at Equiniti in London. Jilani, who came to the city few days ago, boarded an auto near Hill Fort Road near Kalanjali to go to the Secunderabad Railway Station to catch a train Monday night."In a hurry to catch the train, Jilani got down from the auto without taking his hand bag which he had kept in the luggage area at the back of the auto," Central Zone deputy commissioner of police Akun Sabharwal said.The auto belonged to Mir Hyder Ali, a resident of Moin Bagh. He also did not notice that the bag was left behind and left the railway station. He noticed the bag only late in the night and immediately went back to the railway station to find Jilani.Meanwhile Jilani also had not boarded the train after he realised that his bag was missing. He went about in search of the auto till late into the night.Failing to trace Jilani, the auto driver went to the Police Control Room and handed over the bag to the night duty sub-inspector of police Babu.Police went through the documents and other articles in the bag and found the phone numbers of some of Jilani's relatives who stay in Vijayawada. Jilani was finally traced on Tuesday and the bag was returned to him.The bag contained a Toshiba laptop, eight credit cards mostly of England, identification documents and driving licence, three cheque books and other documents.