Chennai, Oct 1 (IANS) The idol wing of the Tamil Nadu police has seized seven Chola-era idols from a house at RA Puram in Chennai, an legitimate said on Saturday.
The idol wing in a declaration said some of the idols had markings and slots for solving on temple palanquins.
The police additionally said that the owner of the house did now not had any proper documents regarding the idols.
The seized idols are of Krishna, Parvati, Buddha, Parvati in sitting posture, Tara statue, Goddess statue and one greater Buddha statue. Two art work had been additionally seized from the residence, the idol wing statement said.
The idol wing will send the seized bronze idols and the art work to the Archeological Survey of India and a file will be sent to the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE).
The Idol wing police said that they got a tip off and acted in this but because the residence turned into locked they were not in a function to get preserve of them.
However, the police contacted the proprietor of the residence who was an NRI, and allowed him every week to offer his declaration at the idols.
The declaration said that the NRI informed the police to take preserve of the statues and the artwork and that he did not know some thing approximately them.
He also knowledgeable that the bronze idols and the artwork have been at his home even before he changed into born and that he don’t know the way it had come to his own family.