The Sonadanga police in Khulna Tuesday morning detained five employees of the divisional museum for interrogation in connection with the missing of two idols from the museum.
Officer-in-charge of Sonadanga thana KM Sawkat Hossain told New Age that Khulna divisional director of the archeology department Shihab Uddin Mohammad Akbar had filed a case on Monday and they had been investigating the case.
The OC said the stealing was perpetrated from inside of the museum as the glasses of the windows were not broken but the grilles of the window were cut.
He said that the adjacent wall of the windows had spider nets and there was no spot of legs or hands there.
The idols of Banu Gopal were yet to be recovered till Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, the archeology department head office in Dhaka formed a three-member probe body and they were expected to visit the museum today, said the Khulna divisional director of the department Shihab Uddin Mohammad Akbar on Tuesday.
The department's Dhaka regional director Mohammad Abdul Khaleq is leading the team and the other two members are archeological engineer Khandakar Zahidul Karim and Chittagong regional director Mohammad Minazur Rahaman, he said.
An officials of Khulna divisional museum said that they missed two idols – one having right hand broken and the other with both legs broken.
Source : New Age
