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West Bengal government forms SIT to probe into R. N. Tagore's Nobel medal theft

West Bengal government forms SIT to probe into R. N. Tagore's Nobel medal theft

| | 02 Sep 2016, 09:50 am
Kolkata, Sept 2 (IBNS): Following West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement, the state government has formed a special investigation team (SIT) to find out Rabindranath Tagore's stolen Nobel Prize medal, officials said.

According to senior government officials, the three-man SIT is consisting of Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, ADG of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Rajesh Kumar and IG of CID (II) Javed Shamim.

"The Kolkata Police and state CID will jointly conduct the investigation and it will begin very soon," a government official told IBNS.

"The SIT will ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hand over gathered information and evidences, related to the investigation, to us," he added.

Earlier on Aug 4, Mamata Banerjee asserted to find out Rabindranath Tagore's stolen Nobel Prize medal during an event at Tagore's memory-intertwined place Shantiniketan in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

Earlier in 2004, country's first Nobel medal, won by Rabindranath Tagore in 1913, was stolen from Visva Bharati University's museum and it's still untraceable, twelve years after the theft.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) completely stopped its investigation in 2009, due to zero development.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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