Kolkata: Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's paintings, his watch and other rare memorabilia have been recovered from his native Santiniketan but none of it includes articles from the previous March 2004 theft, police said on Tuesday.
Posing as foreign buyers, a team of policemen led the operation and raided various premises in Bolpur and Santiniketan, the idyllic seat of learning established by the versatile writer-poet-artist that is now the famous Visva-Bharati University.
Police said the recovered articles included paintings of Tagore and a watch used by the poet besides various antique pieces.
It was being probed if the seizures could lead to any clues on the theft of the Nobel medallion in early 2004.
Four people, including an artist, a defense personnel and hotelier, have been arrested. The articles were stolen at various times from houses in Santiniketan.
Tagore's Nobel prize medallion was stolen from Bichitra, the Tagore museum in Santiniketan, in March 2004.
Among the other items stolen at that time were a pocket-watch that the poet used, gold buttons and cufflinks as well as gold bangles belonging to his wife Mrinalini Devi.
Apart from that, a number of silver vases, some silver cutlery, including forks and spoons, and silver coffee mugs had also been taken.
Even a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry has yielded no results.
Tagore, who got the Nobel prize for literature in 1913, died in 1941 at the age of 80.
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