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The 18-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was rewarded with a new battery-run autorickshaw Sajib, the 18-year-old autorickshaw driver who returned a bag containing Tk61 to its rightful owner in Chandpur, has been rewarded for his exemplary honesty.
The bKash agent, Alamgir Hossain Jewel, who had mistakenly left the bag full of money in the autorickshaw, handed over a new battery-run autorickshaw to Sajib with the help of local police as a token of appreciation for Sajib’s unparalleled demonstration of honesty on Wednesday.
Jewel said: “I have got the money back because of the honesty shown by this young man [Sajib]. The local police also helped me a lot in this regard.
“I had made a promise to arrange a job for him or give him an autorickshaw as a gift. As per Sajib’s wish, I have bought him a battery-run autorickshaw worth Tk65,000. It has already been handed over to him with the help of Jahed Pervez Chowdhury, additional superintendent of Chandpur Police (Sadar Circle).”
Meanwhile, district Awami League leader Badal Gazi has given Tk5,000 to Sajib for his good deed.
He said: “Honesty can’t be measured with money but what we have done is to simply reward the act.”
Earlier on Monday, Masud Hossain, an account manager of bKash, a popular mobile financial service, along with money runner Moktar Hossain and their supervisor Selim, withdrew an amount of Tk61 lakh from a branch of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) in Chandpur town.
After withdrawing the money, the trio got on Sajib’s battery-run autorickshaw and went to Jor Pukurpar area.
It took them half an hour after they got off the vehicle to realize that they had left the bag containing Tk 61 lakh in the vehicle.
The trio, along with Chandpur district bKash agent Alamgir Hossain Jewel, who they work for, rushed to the spot to locate the autorickshaw driver, but he had left by then.
The bKash employees managed to collect CCTV footage from a nearby under-construction building, which showed that Sajib had waited at the spot for half an hour before leaving.
Later, they learned that after finding the bag, Sajib had returned to his garage at Puranbazar in the town.
The bKash employees went to Chandpur Sadar police station to report the incident.
“I filed a written complaint about the missing money with the police,” Alamgir Hossain Jewel told Dhaka Tribune. “Later, when we found the money and received it in full, we filed another written report with the police withdrawing the complaint.”
Meanwhile, after returning to the garage, Sajib reported on the incident to a local Awami League leader, who contacted Sadar police station OC Nasim Uddin.
OC Nasim Uddin said: “We received a verbal complaint, then a written one from the bKash employees, where they said they had mistakenly left the bag of Tk61 lakh in the vehicle.”
Earlier in the day, Chandpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Mahbubur Rahman said the police had first heard that Tk61 lakh of the Chandpur district bKash agent had been mugged, but had later come to know of the actual situation.
“Sajib, along with the cash, was brought to the Sadar police station. After all the money was counted, it was handed over to the bKash agent,” he said.
“I was overwhelmed by Sajib’s honesty and gave him Tk5,000 as a reward,” the SP added. Jewel, the bKash agent, said he was grateful to Sajib and the police.
The 18-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was rewarded with a new battery-run autorickshaw Sajib, the 18-year-old autorickshaw driver who returned a bag containing Tk61 to its rightful owner in Chandpur, has been rewarded for his exemplary honesty.
The bKash agent, Alamgir Hossain Jewel, who had mistakenly left the bag full of money in the autorickshaw, handed over a new battery-run autorickshaw to Sajib with the help of local police as a token of appreciation for Sajib’s unparalleled demonstration of honesty on Wednesday.
Jewel said: “I have got the money back because of the honesty shown by this young man [Sajib]. The local police also helped me a lot in this regard.
“I had made a promise to arrange a job for him or give him an autorickshaw as a gift. As per Sajib’s wish, I have bought him a battery-run autorickshaw worth Tk65,000. It has already been handed over to him with the help of Jahed Pervez Chowdhury, additional superintendent of Chandpur Police (Sadar Circle).”
Meanwhile, district Awami League leader Badal Gazi has given Tk5,000 to Sajib for his good deed.
He said: “Honesty can’t be measured with money but what we have done is to simply reward the act.”
Earlier on Monday, Masud Hossain, an account manager of bKash, a popular mobile financial service, along with money runner Moktar Hossain and their supervisor Selim, withdrew an amount of Tk61 lakh from a branch of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) in Chandpur town.
After withdrawing the money, the trio got on Sajib’s battery-run autorickshaw and went to Jor Pukurpar area.
It took them half an hour after they got off the vehicle to realize that they had left the bag containing Tk 61 lakh in the vehicle.
The trio, along with Chandpur district bKash agent Alamgir Hossain Jewel, who they work for, rushed to the spot to locate the autorickshaw driver, but he had left by then.
The bKash employees managed to collect CCTV footage from a nearby under-construction building, which showed that Sajib had waited at the spot for half an hour before leaving.
Later, they learned that after finding the bag, Sajib had returned to his garage at Puranbazar in the town.
The bKash employees went to Chandpur Sadar police station to report the incident.
“I filed a written complaint about the missing money with the police,” Alamgir Hossain Jewel told Dhaka Tribune. “Later, when we found the money and received it in full, we filed another written report with the police withdrawing the complaint.”
Meanwhile, after returning to the garage, Sajib reported on the incident to a local Awami League leader, who contacted Sadar police station OC Nasim Uddin.
OC Nasim Uddin said: “We received a verbal complaint, then a written one from the bKash employees, where they said they had mistakenly left the bag of Tk61 lakh in the vehicle.”
Earlier in the day, Chandpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Mahbubur Rahman said the police had first heard that Tk61 lakh of the Chandpur district bKash agent had been mugged, but had later come to know of the actual situation.
“Sajib, along with the cash, was brought to the Sadar police station. After all the money was counted, it was handed over to the bKash agent,” he said.
“I was overwhelmed by Sajib’s honesty and gave him Tk5,000 as a reward,” the SP added. Jewel, the bKash agent, said he was grateful to Sajib and the police.
