Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (MS)

Udupi, Oct 14: In an act of honesty of the highest order, an auto rickshaw driver returned Rs 50,000 and the important documents that a woman passenger had left behind in his vehicle by oversight.

This rare occurrence happened at Katapadi near here. Ambalpady Jai Shetty is the honest driver, who displayed humanitarian values.

Jai Shetty had dropped a woman passenger to Katapadi. She had boarded his auto rickshaw at Ambalpady. After dropping the woman, Jai had returned to Ambalpady. When he checked the backseat of his auto rickshaw, he saw a plastic cover left on the passenger seat.

Jaya noticed that the plastic cover contained money and some documents. He immediately took the vehicle to Katapadi and searched for the woman passenger and returned the money as well as the documents to her. According to the information given by the passenger, the plastic cover contained Rs 50,000 in cash and some documents. The woman passenger thanked Jai Shetty whole heartedly.