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Cops and chest in custody
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The iron chest. Picture by Kajal Kairi
Agartala, April 2: Breaking every rule in the police book, senior officers Manik Mazumder and Pinaki Samanta broke into the house of a tribal widow in Tripura’s Amarpur subdivision, carried away a sacred treasure chest and helped themselves to the booty.
Mazumder, commandant of the 9th battalion of Tripura State Rifles, and deputy superintendent of police Samanta were today arrested and remanded in three days’ custody to help CID officials piece together the truth from their conflicting statements.
The 15 TSR jawans who had accompanied Mazumder and Samanta during the “raid” on the house of the widow, Suchitra Jamatya, in Nograi village, told CID officials that on their way back, the officers stopped the convoy near Garzi, a few kilometres away,
The officers ordered all the jawans to disembark and disperse while their personal security guards emptied the chest.
The jawans said they saw, albeit from a distance, the two guards taking out an “image” and some “bags” from the chest.
The TSR commandant then ordered his men to dump the chest in a nearby lake and headed for Baikhora.
Sources in the CID said the two guards were still under interrogation.
The chest, which needs at least five people to lift, is at Baikhora police station. It was retrieved from a lake near Garzi, under Udaipur subdivision of South Tripura. last night.
A team of CID officials, led by an inspector-general, visited Nograi and spoke to Suchitra and her relatives.
Mazumder and Samanta were produced in an Amarpur court today after being interrogated for two days at the police headquarters in Agartala.
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OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
The iron chest. Picture by Kajal Kairi
Agartala, April 2: Breaking every rule in the police book, senior officers Manik Mazumder and Pinaki Samanta broke into the house of a tribal widow in Tripura’s Amarpur subdivision, carried away a sacred treasure chest and helped themselves to the booty.
Mazumder, commandant of the 9th battalion of Tripura State Rifles, and deputy superintendent of police Samanta were today arrested and remanded in three days’ custody to help CID officials piece together the truth from their conflicting statements.
The 15 TSR jawans who had accompanied Mazumder and Samanta during the “raid” on the house of the widow, Suchitra Jamatya, in Nograi village, told CID officials that on their way back, the officers stopped the convoy near Garzi, a few kilometres away,
The officers ordered all the jawans to disembark and disperse while their personal security guards emptied the chest.
The jawans said they saw, albeit from a distance, the two guards taking out an “image” and some “bags” from the chest.
The TSR commandant then ordered his men to dump the chest in a nearby lake and headed for Baikhora.
Sources in the CID said the two guards were still under interrogation.
The chest, which needs at least five people to lift, is at Baikhora police station. It was retrieved from a lake near Garzi, under Udaipur subdivision of South Tripura. last night.
A team of CID officials, led by an inspector-general, visited Nograi and spoke to Suchitra and her relatives.
Mazumder and Samanta were produced in an Amarpur court today after being interrogated for two days at the police headquarters in Agartala.
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