Shastri's watch stolen from his memorial in Delhi

New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) A gold wrist watch gifted to late
prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri by his Russian counterpart
Alexei Kosygin has been stolen from his memorial in the
national capital, police sources said on Wednesday.

The theft came to light on September three but the
authorities of Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial, located adjacent
to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, reported the
matter to police only four days later, they said.

Memorial Director Prof A K Das approached police on
Monday about the theft of the watch, gifted to Shastri during
the 1966 Tashkent conference to broker peace with Pakistan,
the sources said.

Das told police that an internal inquiry was conducted by
his staff but they could not locate the watch and hence
decided to lodge an FIR, they said. Das could not be reached
for comments.

After registering a case of theft, police searched the
premises and collected fingerprints from the building.