Tripura man held for theft after 41 years 

A 58-year-old man in Tripura, wanted for the last 41 years in a case of theft, has finally been arrested, police said on Saturday.

Acting on a permanent arrest warrant against Bachu Kaul, a tea garden worker, the police arrested him late Friday from the Mekhlipara tea estate area in western Tripura.

"Bachu would be produced in a lower court and we will seek his judicial custody for at least seven days," a police official said.

He said that Bachu along with his father Mohan Kaul had stolen a goat in 1978 from West Tripura district's Ranir Bazar. His father died 18 years ago.

Both the father-son had been declared absconders. "The price of the goat was ₹45 in 1978 and the proportional value of that goat at the current market price would be over ₹3,000," the police official claimed.