A Good Samaritan

This is an incident of inner fullness narrated by a Sri S Gunasekar, Special Assistant , Chennai Main Branch:

"While I was working at our Madras University Branch, one day morning , our Record keeper Sri Jayavel (now retired) informed me that he found 3 girls in the busstop near the branch along with a middle aged lady. He told me that he was having some doubt and suspicion about the middle aged lady and he felt that something was fishy.

I immediatley rushed to the bus stop alongwith Sri Jayavel and Sri K Doss (now reitred ) another staff at the branch. As suspected by Sri Jayavel , the lady had picked up those girls from the Parry's Bus stand a famous place in Chennai. She had hoodwinked girls by enticing them that she would get them a chance to act in movies. The girls also appeared to have left from their home town , Bangalore in the fond hope of entering into the cinefiled in Chennai. They did not understand Tamil.

On our coming into the picture by interruption, the lady got into the bus which had just come into the bus stop bay and left the place.

We brought all the three girls to the branch and offered them breakfast. One of the girls was the daughter of a sub inspector. We were also having some fright in our mind because the three were girls. We approached one Philanthropic organisation viz: Udavum Karangal for necessary help.

Mr Vidyasagar the head of the organisation came to our branch and assured us that he would make all arrangements to send the girls to their homes.

By being an employee of SBI I had the courage and opportunity to become part of a good instance of saving the girls from the clutches of evil desings.

Even today I remember the alertness and the postive contribution made by Sri Jayavel our record keeper. I always take pleasure in remembering the incident which gave me innerfullness then and now.

Contributed by Balchandra Bhat, Chennai