Police track down bag with ₹1 crore jewellery mistakenly left in cab

Things have changed here since we moved abroad 25 years ago. We are very thankful to the Noida police. NIKHILESH SINHA

The Noida police tracked down within four hours a bag containing jewellery worth more than ₹1 crore that a family left behind in a private cab.

Nikhilesh Kumar Sinha, a non-resident Indian from the United Kingdom, had come to Greater Noida with his family a few days ago for his daughter’s wedding.

On Wednesday, a cab dropped them at a hotel in Gaur Sarovar Portico at 3pm, but they soon realised they had forgotten their jewellery bag in the vehicle’s trunk. Since they did not have the driver’s contact number, they contacted the police.

Anil Rajput, station house officer of Bisrakh police station, said, “We first checked the vehicle number, which the complainant had given us, on Parivahan app. We found the registration certificate (RC) details, where a contact number was listed. But this number belonged to a broker. We then checked the address on the RC. But it didn’t belong to the driver.”

The police then contacted the private cab operator’s headquarters in Gurugram and got the driver’s contact details.

The driver was unaware that the bag was left behind in his cab and was on another duty, police said.

“He checked the trunk and told us the bag was still locked. The bag was brought to us and opened in front of the complainants, who confirmed that all their belongings worth ₹1crore were in it,” said Rajput.

Sinha said, “We had given up hope that we would get our belongings back. However, we got the bag back before 9pm on Wednesday with all the jewelry. Things have completely changed here since we moved abroad 25 years ago. We are very thankful to the Noida police.”