MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 5: A student got back nearly Rs80,000 in foreign currency on Wednesday, two days after he had lost the cash in a passenger wagon, police said. When the Punjab University MSc student, Danish Maroof, got off a wagon on Monday, he found that an envelope containing 725 pounds and $100 was missing.

On his complaint, the driver and cleaner of the wagon were arrested and their vehicle was impounded. On Tuesday evening, a deputy superintendent of police in the Bagh district, Sardar Gulfraz, sent a message on wireless that a retired director of the education department, Sardar Akbar Khan, had found an envelope containing foreign currency.

Mr Khan, a resident of district Bagh, was travelling in the same wagon but he had to rush to Rawalpindi for some domestic engagement and he informed the DSP about finding the envelope on returning to his hometown on Tuesday.