Srinagar: A Srinagar woman has mistakenly handed over a gold coin instead of a 10-rupee coin as bus fare while travelling from GB Pant Hospital to Radio Kashmir Gate on January 18, a news agency reported.
It said that Waheeda, a resident of Sonwar Srinagar, intended to sell the gold coin to meet the medical expenses of her brother-in-law, currently admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“I boarded a Mazda bus in the morning near GB Pant Hospital, Sonwar, and got down near Radio Kashmir Gate near Zero Bridge, and mistakenly handed over a gold coin instead of a 10-rupee coin as bus fare to the conductor,” she recalled.
She said she realized her mistake only after reaching a jeweler’s shop where she found a gold coin missing from her purse.
“I didn’t realize that I had handed over a gold coin to the conductor instead of a 10-rupee coin. I was in haste. I can’t identify the vehicle, but I appeal to the concerned bus conductor to kindly return the gold coin. My family could be contacted on the cell number, 7006807001,” she appealed.
