India News | CBI to Return Accommodation in Tripura Burgled Recently
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The CBI will return its "temporary accommodation" in Agartala to the Tripura government where a theft had allegedly taken place recently with thieves scooting away doors, windows, furniture and other materials from there, officials said on Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) The CBI will return its "temporary accommodation" in Agartala to the Tripura government where a theft had allegedly taken place recently with thieves scooting away doors, windows, furniture and other materials from there, officials said on Monday.
The agency said that the premises was not a "CBI office" but a state government quarters given to the agency as a temporary accommodation for the visiting staff in 2023 immediately after the Chit Funds Scam cases were transferred to it.
"No official documents or case property or case records of the CBI are kept in the said premises. No records or case property were stolen. The office of the CBI Unit at Agartala is functioning from a different premises and not from the aforesaid quarters," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
The said quarters have not been used even for residential purpose in the recent past, it said.
"Some of the furniture items given by the state government have been stolen from this quarters as nobody was staying there. An FIR has been registered and state police has arrested the suspects and also recovered some of the furniture items. Since the said premises is not being used any longer, the same is being returned to the state government," the statement said.
It is alleged that the thieves stole the doors and windows of the quarters besides steel cupboards, chairs and various electrical equipments.
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