Vendor finds bag with Rs 80,000, returns to owner

Bhadra Plaza is a crowded place to shop in Ahmedabad’s old city area and one advice that is given to every shopper is to take care of their belongings. So when Syed Muzaffar Ali, a resident of Juhapura, realised that he had lost his bag containing Rs 80,000, he had little hope to find it.

Moreover, Ali realised that his bag was missing after an hour. “I had come to shop with my family. At one shop as I reached for the money, I realised that the bag was not with me. Initially, I thought I had left it back home, but then my family told me that they remember me taking the bag.” As soon as he realised that he had lost the bag, Ali got in touch with other members of his family for help to find the money, and they together started asking around.

Upon trying to retrace Ali’s steps in an attempt to find the bag, they came across the street vendor who had found the missing bag. Meghal Bansilal had found the bag and when he was approached by Ali about the same, he asked him several questions about the particulars in the bag to make sure …read more