Bangladesh nabs man for theft of Tagore's Nobel medal

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh police arrested a man in connection with the theft of the Nobel Prize medal of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, an officer said on Sunday.

The medal was stolen from Visva-Bharati University in the Indian state of West Bengal in March 2004 and Indian police believe it may have been taken to Bangladesh.

On Saturday, police raided a house in Dhaka's Azimpur area and arrested Mohammad Hossain Shiplu who is accused of close links with the main Indian suspect Jibon Singh.

"The raid was conducted following a tip from Indian police," said Abdullah Aref, a senior official of the Criminal Investigation Department. Singh is believed to be hiding in Bangladesh. Bengali poet Tagore won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913.

Dhaka, Sunday, Reuters