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Tagore medal theft: one held

KOLKATA: Visva-Bharati University authorities are hopeful that the stolen Nobel Prize medal of Rabindranath Tagore would be recovered following the reported detention of a person in Bangladesh.

“This is good news for us but we are yet to be officially intimated about the development,” a spokesman of the university told The Hindu from Santiniketan on Wednesday.

(AFP reported from Dhaka that Bangladesh that security forces had arrested an antique shop owner. Abdul Hossain was arrested late on Tuesday, Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion said. The medal has not been found.)

The medal and some other items belonging to the poet were stolen from the university’s Rabindra Bhavan museum in March 2004.

“The calling off of investigations into the theft of the medal by the Central Bureau of Investigation more than a month ago had come as a major disappointment to the university. But the reported arrest has rekindled hopes of the stolen medal and the other items being recovered,” the spokesman said.

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