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CBI arrests two absconders in ASI museum theft case
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.
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
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