Police so far could not make any headway in its probe to recover Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel citation, which was stolen from his house on February 7.
Three persons were arrested on February 12 in connection with the theft of the Nobel medal replica and other valuables from his residence in south Delhi's Kalkaji.
While other stolen items, including the medal replica, have been recovered, the child rights activist's Nobel citation is yet to be found, even as police have tried reconstructing the route taken by the alleged burglars who broke into his house when he was in Panama.
The accused told police that they had thrown the items that were of "no use to them" in some bushes near the DDA flats in Kalkaji. The routes that the burglars could have used for commuting have also been studied but there has not been any breakthrough till now, police said.
Police visited the area and they found a shawl that belonged to Satyarthi but the citation was not found.
The investigating officers reconstructed the entire route taken by the burglars but so far they have not been able to find the citation.
"We are speaking to morning walkers by showing them pictures of the citation. In fact, we have even questioned ragpickers in the area and asked them whether they have collected anything that resembles the citation. But so far, we have not had any success," said a senior police officer.
The accused have been claiming they have not taken away anything that resembles the citation, he added.
"They are claiming that they haven't stolen the citation. But we suspect that they don't remember what they have done with it. We have shown them pictures but they haven't been able to recall about the citation till now," he said.
Police are suspecting that after the accused decamped with items from three houses they burgled into including Satyarthi's, they separated the loot that could be sold and those that were of "no use" to them.
There are also chances that they might have kept the citation somewhere and are not able to recall it, he added.
Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. He shared the prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.
Satyarthi had presented his Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Pranab Mukherjee in January, 2015. The original medal has been preserved and is now on display at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum.
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