Engineering college student turns Good Samaritan

Chennai: What would you do if you were to find an unclaimed bag gotten from a train wi­th cash and gold jewels in it? Not an easy question to give an honest answer to. But, this 20-year-old college student did not have that pr­o­blem.

Arriving Tambaram from his native Thanjavur in the early hours of Wednesday, Mohammed Abdullah, a fi­n­al-year student of Moh­a­m­­­med Sathak A.J. College of Engineering, had one of the surprises of his life when he opened his travel bag at the hostel room after returning from the classroom Wednesday evening.

Unable to find the key, he broke the tiny lock to find around Rs 10,000 cash and some gold jewels inside. It then donned on him that he had picked up the wrong bag from the luggage compartment of the unreserved coach of Mannai Express that he arrived by early Wednesday morning. Alar­m­ed, the student immediately rushed to Tambaram government railway police station and handed over the bag.

The Good Samaritan also gave a written undertaking that he left to the classroom in a hurry in the morning and, hence, opened it after returning to the hostel room in the evening.

Acco­rding to Tambaram GRP officials, the student clai­m­ed that his travel bag loo­k­ed similar to the one he had wrongly picked up.

Tamb­a­ram GRP has sent a message to its other stations ab­o­ut the bag. The real ow­n­­ers of the bag have not app­r­­oached GRP to reclaim the bag.