Kolkata: Giving a new twist to the Nobel heist mystery, marksheet scam accused former Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Dilip Sinha has reportedly informed the CID officials during interrogations that the burgled Nobel medal of Rabindranath Tagore was still in Santiniketan.

CID's Additional Director-General R K Mohanty said today (June 28, 2004) that Sinha, now in police custody following his arrest in the marksheet scandal in the central University, had told the sleuths during interrogations that the stolen medallion was still in Visva-Bharati.

''That's all and he has not spoken further,'' the CID top man said.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been probing the medal heist since March and claimed "some breakthroughs", with the State CID extending assistance in the current investigations.

Sinha, who was taken to state-run S S K M hospital's cardiology department for reported chest pain complaint on Saturday, could not be thoroughly examined by the sleuths.

Mohanty said that Sinha would be further interrogated after he had informed the CID officials that the Nobel medal was still in Santiniketan and had not slipped out of that place.

He said that the CBI had been informed of Sinha's statement on Nobel heist.