Sikh Youth sets a Rare Example of Honesty!

It is hard to find honest people these day as materialism has taken the centre stage.

But, a local youth and his two friends have set an example by returning the debit card of a college lecturer, who forgot it at an ATM in posh Ranjit Avenue after withdrawing money from her account. Interestingly, the password of the ATM was also written on the card’s pouch. On finding the card, the trio decided to return it to its rightful owner.

While giving details, Ritu Sharma, a lecturer in local DAV College, said she had gone to Ranjit Avenue for some work and withdrawn cash from an ATM. However, she forgot her debit card on the machine. She was not even aware about it until she received a call from a youth, who identified himself as Gurneet Singh Khalsa. He told Ritu that he had her debit card.

Gurneet (24) said he found the card lying on the ATM machine. He said first he thought someone might have discarded the card as its validity might have expired, but on checking he found a handwritten password on its pouch. Later, he discovered a huge sum in the account.

Gurneet resides in Jalalabad in Ferozepur and had come to Amritsar for some personal work. “However, I am a baptized Sikh. The teachings of Gurus and my conscious did not allow me to steal the cash,” he said while adding that he decided to return the ATM to its owner.

He said he went to a number of branches of Punjab National Bank (PNB) and finally an official guided him to Green Avenue branch after going through online records. He met the manager of the PNB branch at Green Avenue and requested him to help in tracing the owner of the ATM. They got the contact number of Ritu Sharma from her account.

Dr Rakesh Sharma, an orthopaedic surgeon, at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital and husband of Ritu Sharma, said the gesture of the youths impressed upon him to start believing that honesty still lives. He said others should take inspiration from such people.

-Tribune