An emerald lingam claimed to be price Rs 500 crore has been recovered from a bank locker of a man in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur on Thursday.
Emerald lingam price Rs 500 crore existing in Tamil Nadu man’s bank locker. (Image: ANI)
An emerald lingam claimed to be price Rs 500 crore has been recovered from a bank locker of a man in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur on Thursday.
ADGP K Jayanth Murali, who head the idol wing CID police, urged newshounds in Chennai on Friday that they acted on a tip that antique idols were saved at a dwelling in Thanjavur.
A team led by additional superintendents of police R Rajaram and P Ashok Natarajan visited the dwelling and puzzled 80-300 and sixty five days-mature N S Aruna Baskar, a resident of the dwelling at Arulananda Nagar Seventh Motorway in the metropolis.
The man, basically based fully fully on sources, urged police that his octogenarian father N A Samiyappan has an emerald lingam in his bank locker.
After Baskar stated that his family didn’t come by any documents for it, the police team seized the 8cm tall and 500gm in weight idol.
In response to TOI sources, an FIR is pending about an emerald lingam going lacking from a Shiva temple in Tirukkuvalai in Tiruvarur district in 2016, and preliminary investigations showed that the recovered artefact might per chance perhaps per chance be the one.
The ADGP stated gemmoloists come by valued the idol to be price at Rs 500 crore. “Now we come by verified with custodians indulge in Dharmapuram Adheenam who come by confirmed it to be usual. Now we must form scientific analysis and determine the temple to which it belongs,” the ADGP urged TOI.
In response to a list from inspector of police Murugesan, a case has been registered.
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