Mangalore : On Monday at noon (July19) a lady NRI Poornima Bhat hired Raymond Monteiro’s vehicle to reach Sharada Vidyalaya to admit her 2 kids and return to her Shivabagh home in Kadri.
She left a ladies’ beg containing Rs. 50,000 only and documents like passport and Visa etc, in the auto – rickshaw (KA19-7603) and went home only to report Kadri police that her bag was missing!
Meanwhile, Raymond the driver, drove to Bikarnaaktte for his lunch and short nap, but when he returned for his rounds, discovered the bag lying in his vehicles. Promptly he went to Shivbagh and checked the lady’s home and knocked on her door. Ms Bhat opened the door only to hear Monteiro asking her if she had lost a bag with money piles and documents.
On ascertaining that she indeed had lost the bag, he handed ever the bag with goods intact to her. Ms Bhat was quite pleased and rang up Kadri police that she was withdrawing her complaint about the missing Bag which was delivered to her by the auto driver himself. Her relatives Dr. Sunder Bhat wanted to thank the driver, who was not found. The Kadri police, similarly, wanted to thank the honest driver and succeeded in locating him and honoured him on Wednesday evening (July 21). The Bhat family expressed its gratitude to Raymond Monteiro.
His colleagues, an auto driver, stated that since Monteiro did a good turn, his colleagues felt good.