Punjab Junction Weekly Newspaper / 30 December 2022
Chennai,
The Tamil Nadu Idol Wing has traced three idols stolen from the state to the Christie’s auction house, Sotheby’s and another in Manhattan, and also initiated steps to retrieve them, DGP K Jayanth Murali said on Friday.
Steps are on to bring back an idol of the Buddha seized from the international idol smuggler Subash Kapoor’s gallery in New York by the district attorney’s office in Manhattan and now available in their warehouse, a bronze idol of Lord Nataraj and an idol of Alingana Murthy (Chandrasekhar and his wife Chandrasekhar Amman).
Papers will be submitted to bring the Buddha idol in a week’s time to Tamil Nadu and have it reinstalled at its original place at Arapakkam in Kanchipuram district, Murali said.
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Chief Editor-┬аJasdeep Singh┬а (National Award Winner)
