Cabbie rewarded for returning rings

New York cab driver Osman Chowdhury said Wednesday that he never once considered keeping the 31 diamond rings he found inside a suitcase left in his cab by a Dallas woman who had given him a 30-cent tip.

“Why would I think I could keep it?” said Chowdhury, 41, of Queens. “It wasn’t mine.”

Instead, Chowdhury did the right thing: He helped his supervisor track down the woman and returned the suitcase, a laptop computer and the diamond rings, which were worth $30,000.

“I just do my job,” said the native of Bangladesh, who has been in New York since 1992.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, is a jeweler from Dallas, and thanked Chowdhury with a $100 reward.