New Delhi, Apr 22: CBI has arrested two absconders who had allegedly killed a guard and stolen the precious idol of Lord Buddha from an Archaeological Survey of India museum in Allahabad. The duo -- Jai Chand and Luv Kush -- were presented before the special designated court and remanded to judicial custody, a CBI spokesman said here today. The case was earlier registered by up police and later transferred to CBI in June, 2003. After camping at Allahabad for nearly three months, the CBI team zeroed in on both the suspects who have confessed to their crime, the spokesman said. The CBI team has also identified some more names which were allegedly involved in the case but did not figure in the investigation conducted by the Shankargarh police in Uttar Pradesh, he added.

The crime was committed on the intervening night of 21 and 22 April, 2002 and Vinod Kumar Srivastava, a watchman was killed and an idol of Lord Budhha weighing around two quintals was stolen from the ASI protected monument located at Garhwa Fort.

Bureau Report