Two young auto drivers, Shabbir and Guru of Ariyur near here, were felicitated at a function organised by an NGO ‘Inaindha Kaigal’ on Wednesday for helping a group of devotees from Maharashtra get back their belongings which they had lost in a van near the Golden Temple.
A Shabbir (26), who holds a diploma in hardware engineering and an MBA student, has been an auto driver at the Golden Temple stand for four years. Narrating the incident at the function, he said 18 devotees from Maharashtra had arrived at the Golden Temple on Monday via Tirupati, where they had hired a van to travel to Vellore. When they entered the temple, they had put their mobile phones, cameras, train tickets and other belongings in a bag and left it in the van.
A group of six devotees from Andhra Pradesh had hired the van to the Katpadi Railway Station for boarding a train. After dropping them, the van driver returned to the temple by the time when the Maharashtra devotees came out. When they checked, they found the bag with their belongings missing and lodged a complaint with the police.
Since the Maharashtrians could converse only in Marathi and Hindi, Shabbir, who was well-versed in both the languages, apart from Tamil, was called for help. Shabbir said he had found out from the van driver that the bag had been taken away by the AP devotees.
He, along with Guru and the police, went to the Katpadi Railway Station to trace the AP group. The identified the AP devotees and he, along with Shabbir, got into the train and secured the bag belonging to the Maharashtra devotees.They threw it out of the train. The bag was handed over to Maharashtra devotees, who left Vellore, praising the auto drivers who had taken a lot of risk to get back the valuables.
Venkatesan, president of NGO said about 25 auto drivers had pledged to donate their eyes and other organs, at the function.
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