Conservancy staff in Chennai rewarded for handing over valuables from garbage bin to police
The Hindu
Two staff members found gold while collecting garbage, and handed over the items to their local police stations
Two instances of conservancy staff handing over gold jewellery, found on a street and in a garbage bin, to the police were reported. Their gesture was widely appreciated by many. M. Mohanasundaram, 55 of Royapuram has been working as a conservancy staff in Zone-4 of the Chennai Corporation. On Thursday morning, he collected garbage from the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board quarters in Rangarajapuram, Korukkupet and carried it to Ekappan street for segregation. While he was busy in segregation, he found a bag containing gold jewellery in the bin. He immediately walked into the Korukkupet police station and gave the bag to police personnel to trace the owner of the items. By this time, an individual M. Muniyamma, 47, a resident of Slum Clearance Board quarters came to the station saying she had kept 10 sovereigns of gold jewellery at her house for her daughter’s wedding to be held on Friday but it was missing.
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