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CBI 'informant' awaits prize money in Staines case

M I Khan in Bhubaneswar

A woman has claimed that she has not received the prize money for tipping off, nearly a year back, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which led to the arrest of an aide of Dara Singh, the alleged killer of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons.

Laxmi Lohar said she helped the CBI arrest Andha Nayak.

The prize money was announced by the CBI and state government.

The police, however, disputed her claim, stating that she had not provided any tenable clues.

State director general of police S K Chatterjee said that Lohar was close to Dara Singh and his associates.

Though the police had cultivated her as a source, she turned out to be a 'fence', passing on information regarding investigations to Dara Singh, he said.

Lohar, in a letter to the Mayurbhanj superintendent of police, the CBI superintendent of police, Bhubaneswar and Chatterjee, made it clear that the CBI managed to nab Nayak last October acting on her tip-off and assistance from her husband.

"I am awaiting the prize money because I risked my life," she stated.

However, Chatterjee said the prize money had already been distributed among police personnel and informants who had participated in the search and arrest operations for Dara Singh and his associates.

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