Chandigarh: Two men from Punjab came forward to help a Kashmiri man whose cartons of apples were stolen after his truck overturned in Fatehgarh Sahib district on Monday. Rajwinder Singh from Patiala and Gurpreet Singh from Mohali gave a cheque of Rs 9.12 lakh to Shahid, a resident of Sopore in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, to compensate for the loss he suffered.
A total of 1,200 cartons of apples were stolen by villagers and passersby after the fruit-laden truck overturned on the Delhi-Amritsar highway in Fatehgarh Sahib district on Saturday. The truck was coming from Srinagar and heading to Bihar. The video of cartons of apples being taken away went viral. Rajwinder Singh and Gurpreet Singh approached the police and expressed their wish to compensate for the loss to the owner of the truck.
Rajwinder Singh said he could not believe that some people were busy stealing apple cartons instead of helping the truck driver who met with an accident. "It was quite an unfortunate incident that took place in Punjab," he said. "We wanted to give a good message of Punjabiyat to people," said Rajwinder as he stressed that people should come forward to help those in need.