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The Idol Wing-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police said Australian and U.S. authorities had agreed to repatriate 5 idols to Tamil Nadu owed to its sustained efforts.
Officials said the recovered artefacts were being brought backmost to the State done the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) route, and subsequently handed implicit to the respective temples aft owed ineligible procedures. Investigations by the Idol Wing-CID revealed that respective missing antique metallic idols had surfaced successful salient planetary museums, institutions, and auction houses abroad.
Additional Director-General of Police, Idol Wing-CID, Kalpana Nayak said successful a caller breakthrough that authorities successful Australia person agreed to repatriate 3 antique metallic idols dating backmost to the 12th Century, portion the U.S. has consented to instrumentality 2 much idols. In total, 5 idols volition beryllium repatriated to Tamil Nadu.
The 3 idols that volition beryllium repatriated from the National Gallery of Australia successful Canberra are a trident with the auspicious Kali (Bhadrakali) worthy astir ₹2 crore, a chromatic idol of Nandi (Sacred Bull) belonging to the Arulmigu Kailasanathar temple of Kaduvankudi village in Tiruvarur district worthy ₹4 crore, and a chromatic idol of Six-Headed Skanda — Karthikeya (Subramanya) belonging to the Arulmigu Naganathaswamy temple of Manambadi village worthy astir ₹2 crore.
The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution of the U.S., agreed to instrumentality 2 metallic sculptures kept successful the Freer-Sackler Museum successful Washington DC.
The 2 are Sundarar and Paravai Nachiyar belonging to the Arulmigu Nareeswarar Sivan Temple of Veera Cholapuram village in Kallakurichi district, constructed 900 years ago, and Somaskandar (12th-13th Century) belonging to the Arulmigu Viswanathasamy Temple in Aalathur village of Tiruvarur district.
