Acting on the cops' inputs, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and local police took custody of the Kannappa Nayanar idol in March. Legal procedures to retrieve the idol are underway.

Tamil Nadu's Anti-Idol Wing successfully thwarted the auction of a stolen Kannappa Nayanar idol, which was scheduled to take place at the European Fine Arts Exhibition 2025 in the Netherlands.

The Kannappa Nayanar metal idol was secured by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 23, 2025, after the intervention by the Idol Wing CID and the Archaeological Survey of India.

The idol, a metal representation of Kannappa Nayanar, was reported stolen from the Arulmigu Agneeswaraswamy Temple in Thirupugalur in Nagapattinam district in 2010. According to officials ...

According to an official release, the Kannappa Nayanar metal idol was stolen from Arulmigu Agneeswaraswamy temple at Thirupugalur in Nagapattinam district in 2010 by unidentified persons.

It is a unique posture of Kannappa Nayanar, and we worked closely with the idol wing to find possible matches. We used our advanced proprietary app developed by the India Pride Project ...

Later, when Nayanar got to know about it, according to Alphons, it was Joseph’s threat to resign from cabinet if any disciplinary action was taken against the bureaucrat that rescued him.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Tuesday registered an FIR against five contractors, three Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, three ...

Three months later, when the CPI(M) Chief Minister E K Nayanar discovered the fait accompli, he wanted Alphons suspended. Joseph threatened to resign. Alphons, meanwhile, approached the chairman ...

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