Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel citation stolen

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Several valuable items, including replica of a Nobel Prize, were stolen from Nobel Laureate says Kailash Satyarthi’s home in Delhi’s Greater Kailash. Reports also say his Nobel citation has been stolen.

Kailash Satyarthi, a children’s rights and education activist and the founder of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, which he shared with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai.

And this is not the first Nobel thieft. The Nobel medal and the citation, won by Rabindranath Tagore in 1913, were stolen from Visva Bharati University’s museum in West Bengal.

The CBI had taken over the case soon after, but failed to recover it and closed the case in 2007. However, under political pressure, the case was reopened in 2008 and closed again in 2009. Last year, a ‘baul’ singer was arrested for his alleged involvement in the theft, but a probe proved inconclusive.