According to company sources, Shetty, who comes from Mangalore in southern India and who has been working as a taxi driver for about two years, handed over the bag to the company’s main call centre in Mesaimeer, without even opening it.

But would he have handed it in if he knew what was in it? That's a lot of money for a taxi driver!

In a statement, the company said: “This is only a part of the bigger things that we do regularly from maintaining our cars inside-out and bringing our passengers to their destinations safely and comfortably.”

Typical company trying to get some good publicity out of it! How has this incident got anything to do with maintaining the cars and transporting passengers safely? Surely they are the two of the first things you'd expect a taxi company to do!