New Delhi: The Criminal Investigation Department of Bangladesh on Saturday claimed to have arrested a man in connection with the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize medal, which had been stolen from the Rabindranath Tagore Museum in Kolkata in 2004.
A CID spokesperson said the man, named Shimbu, was arrested 'for stealing the medal from the museum in Santiniketan University four years ago'.
Shimbu allegedly crossed the border to go into hiding in Bangladesh after committing the theft with several Indian accomplices in the neighbouring West Bengal state. The Bangladesh CID officials said among other articles stolen from the museum were costly jewels belonging to Tagore's wife.
In 2004, the Nobel medal along with 43 other items had been stolen from Rabindra Bhavan in Santiniketan, about 225 km from Kolkata. Rabindra Bhavan is part of Visva Bharati University, which was founded by Tagore in 1921.
Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize in 1913 for literature for his work of verses Gitanjali, was the first non-Westerner to win the literature prize.
During the theft in 2004, Tagore's Nobel medal for literature and a certificate as well as some personal possessions were taken from a locked glass showcase in the museum.
Sweden's Nobel Foundation, however, offered two replicas of the stolen Nobel medallion to Visva Bharati University in 2005.
The West Bengal Government had handed over the case of the missing medallion to the CBI, which however abandoned the search after two years of futile exercise.
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