Title - Couple leaves bag with Rs 1.7L on train, gets it back

MUMBAI: A Railway Protection Force (RPF) team returned a bag containing Rs 1.67 lakh in cash, cheques of up to Rs 2 lakh, ATM cards and several vital documents to a couple from Nagpur who had left it aboard a local train.Avinash Meshram and his wife Asha, both nutritional consultants from Nagpur, had come to Mumbai to attend an event. They had brought along the cash to purchase products on behalf of their diabetic patients. "The couple had come to Mumbai on Duronto Express. They then took a local train to Bandra from CST around 10am on Saturday. As the train was overcrowded, the two decided to keep their bag on the overhead luggage rack. In their hurry to get off, the Meshrams forgot to pick up the bag. By the time they realized their mistake, the train had left," said an RPF officer.The couple then approached the Bandra RPF outpost. While the RPF personnel began their search, the worried couple refused to sit tight. They went to CST and searched compartments of locals on the way. But they couldn't find their bag and returned to Bandra station. Three hours later, the RPF informed them that a bag had been found at CST. After cross-checking the bag's contents with the couple, the RPF conducted a panchnama and handed over the bag to them at CST."The couple was in tears as the money in the bag belonged to their patients who had been relying on them to purchase nutritional products. They thanked our staffers, RP Darade and Manoj Kakad, who had helped trace the bag. The said they weren't as worried about the documents as they were about their patients' money," said an official.