Mangaluru: Police Commissioner Chandra Sekhar, on Friday rewarded an auto rickshaw driver for returning valuables of worth 5 lakh which was left by a passenger in his rickshaw.

The honest rickshaw driver is Pratap Shetty (35).

A passenger named Deepthi travelled by Pratap’s auto on Friday to attend a wedding function at Kulai. When she got down from the auto she forgot to take the valuables of worth Rs 5 lakh with her.

After finding it in rickshaw Pratap came to Mangaluru north police station and handed over the valuables to the police. Commissioner rewarded Pratap Shetty with Rs 5000 on behalf of Mangaluru police, for his honesty.

Biruver Kudla organisation members were present along with Pratap Shetty.