Mumbai: Man finds lost gold with cops' help

For jeweller Sandeep Jain, the new year started on a happy note. Jain, who had forgotten a bag of gold worth Rs5.50 lakh in a local train, retrieved it, thanks to the alacrity of railway policemen.   

On Wednesday morning, Jain, proprietor of Milan Jewellers in Ghatkopar, set out for Mumbra with 15 tolas (or 150gm) of gold.

With the jewellery neatly tucked into a plastic box kept in a bag, Jain boarded a Kalyan-bound train.

Constable Anil Jagdane of the Government Railway Police said that Jain was taking the jewellery to a client’s in Mumbra. Jain, who had got into the middle first-class compartment of the train, alighted at Mumbra station without the bag. 

“It’s only after he disembarked that it occurred to him that he had forgotten the bag containing the gold,” says Jagdane.  A harried Jain immediately called up the railway police helpline, which in turn alerted the Kalyan railway police around 11.40am. Showing swift action, constable Jagdane and two of his colleagues, got into the compartment as soon as the train trundled into Kalyan station about three minutes later.

“The bag, as had been described by Jain, was lying in the compartment,” said constable Jagdane who called up Jain. The bag was handed over to him around 12.30pm.

Only last month, Jagdane had returned Rs90,000 cash left behind by an absent-minded commuter. In 2012, he had handed over 5.5 tolas of gold to another.