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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Stolen from a TN temple over 50 years ago, Maa Parvati murti traced to New York auction house

The Tamil Nadu Police’s Idol Wing have traced a murti of Goddess Parvati that was stolen from a temple in the state in 1971 to the Bonhams auction house in New York, officials said on Monday.

According to the police, the Parvati murti was part of five murti that were burgled from the Nadanapureshwarar temple at Kumbakonam on May 12, 1971. Police have now commenced the process to retrieve the murti and bring it back to Bharat under the UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention 1972.

Talking to IANS, DGP, CID-Idol Wing Jayanth Murali, said: “We sought the help of an archaeologist who said that the photograph of the idol of Parvati that was kept at the French Institute of Pondicherry and the idol of Parvati on sale at Bonham’s auction house is the same. This means that the idol of Parvati at Bonhams belongs to the Nadanapureshwarar temple at Kumbakonam.”

Following the complaint after they were stolen in 1971, temple trustee K. Vasu, in 2019, lodged another complaint and said that he had seen the murti in 1971 when they were in public worship, and after that, he had not seen them. In the complaint, Vasu said that he had seen the locks of the temple broken while reaching there for worship and then two trustees of the temple had complained to the Nachiarkoyil police and the inspector had visited the temple.

Vasu also said that no FIR was lodged then and hence he was filing the complaint. He filed the complaint with the Special Officer, Idol Wing, S.G. Pon Manickavel, and a case was registered in 2019.

After tracing one, senior officers told IANS that they are trying to trace the remaining four murti.

(The story has been published via a syndicated feed with a modified headline and minor edits to conform to HinduPost style guide)

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