Seven out of eight Common Marmosets,stolen from Alipore Zoo on August 9,were recovered from Durg in Chhattisgarh late on Friday evening. One person has been arrested,who has admitted to have bought the simians from a person in Alipore. Acting on a tip-off,the sleuths of Chhattisgarh Crime Branch raided a house in Durg and recovered the animals. They handed over the marmosets to forest officials in Chhattisgarh and later informed Kolkata police and senior officials of the state forest department. According to Raju Das,director of Alipore Zoo,at present the animals are kept under the supervision of the divisional forest officer of Chhattisgarh. The Kolkata police informed us about the recovery. We are told that one marmoset had died when it was smuggled from Kolkata to Chhattisgarh, said Das. The arrested accused has admitted that the marmosets were stolen from Alipore Zoo and he had purchased those from a person in Alipore, he added. A team of senior city police officers and forest officials will visit Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning to bring back the marmosets and the accused to Kolkata.
