Malad police rewarded a beat marshal, Nilesh Nikam, with a cash prize of Rs 15,000 and a medal for honestly depositing jewellery, gold coins and biscuits, and cash amounting to lakhs of rupees at the station. Police sources said that Nikam, during his patrol, found a tiffin bag on a footpath near N L college on S V Road October 2. He searched it and found the valuable items and Rs 98,721 in cash, which he deposited at Malad police station.

Bhageshwar Chowdhary, the help, was drunk and accidentally left his bag on the footpath