29 August 2009, 05:06am IST
KOLKATA: Seven of the eight common marmosets stolen from Alipore zoological garden on August 9 were rescued from a house in Chhattisgarh’s Durg — some 900 km from Kolkata — on Friday night. One had died while in captivity.
City police commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti confirmed the recovery and said that the Chhattisgarh police had made an arrest as well. “A Kolkata Police team will leave for Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning to make a detailed probe,” he said.
It was the Interpol notice and countrywide alert that led to the breakthrough, say sources. Kolkata Police’s detective department had few clues to work on. The Chhattisgarh police, who knew a lookout notice was on for the stolen Brazilian monkeys, got a tip on Friday afternoon that some people were trying to sell off monkeys.
They raided a house in Durg and found seven marmosets in a cage. The housekeeper was arrested and interrogated. “It was he who revealed that one of the monkeys had died while being transported from Kolkata,” said the city police chief.
Alipore zoological garden director Raju Das said he has been informed by the Chhattisgarh forest department that the marmosets would be returned to Kolkata soon.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/City/Kolkata-/Stolen-monkeys-found-in-Durg/articleshow/4947103.cms
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