pune autorickshaw driver ismail harun sayyad did not allow his desperation about educating his two children take over his honesty when he found a bag with jewellery worth rs 1 lakh and cash accidentally left behind by three passengers who he had dropped to the pune railway station on july 8 sayyad whose children have not attended any classes for almost a year now since he was unable to pay their fees promptly investigated and contacted the passengers and the police before handing over the bag i have to pay rs 15000 each for both my childrens admission so that they can continue their studies it has been almost a year and they have not attended any school the autorickshaw is a rented one my daughter keeps asking me when she will be able to resume studies and i have no answer sayyad who lives in mithanagar area of kondhwa told toi sayyad said he had taken three passengers from the same family from wagholi and had dropped them at the pune station in the morning hours i used to make around rs 900 to rs 1000 each day but after the second wave business is slow the closure of shops after 4pm has impacted our business and i hardly make rs 200 to rs 250 a day i dropped the family off at pune station and then took another passenger from poolgate to kondhwa after which i came home for lunch as i got ready for my trips for the afternoon i noticed the bag kept in the luggage space of the autorickshaw i opened it to see if i could find a contact number sayyad told toi he found gold jewellery inside it and rs 5000 in cash i also found the bill of the jewellery store and a number on which i called the one answering the phone turned out to be a relative of the passengers after a while i got a call from one of the passengers then i contacted a senior member of my autorickshaw union who too contacted the passengers and we all met up at the bund garden police station where i handed them the bag in the presence of the cops so that no disputes arise he said sayyad said he could never think of keeping the forgotten bag it did not belong to me and i realized the anxiety the rightful owners must have been in i wont keep anything that does not belong to me even when i am facing problems while my childrens education is a concern all i could think of at that time was a way to return the bag he said