7, INCLUDING CHRISTIAN PRIEST, ARRESTED FOR LOOTING ANTIQUES WORTH RS. 1 CRORE

Subject:	7, INCLUDING CHRISTIAN PRIEST, ARRESTED FOR LOOTING ANTIQUES WORTH RS. 1 CRORE
Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:30:26 GMT

Forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman

Monday, February 1, 2010

Re. 1 crore, looted antiques. Seven held including priest Immanuel

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Priceless Treasures: Jain idols and those of Hindu gods and
goddesses, said to be worth around Rs 1 crore, were recovered by the
idol wing of the CB-CID on Sunday. CB-CID additional director general
of police G Thilagavathy (in pic) said some of the idols were
recovered from the banks of the Viruthaseera river, where they had
been buried by the thieves. Seven persons, including a Christian
priest, were arrested for the crime.

7 held for stealing panchaloha idols Eleven Figurines Worth Rs 1 Cr Recovered

A Selvaraj, TNN

Chennai: Sleuths of the CBCID’s idol wing on Sunday arrested seven
persons, including a Christian priest and three traders, for stealing
11 panchaloha idols said to be worth about Rs 1 crore from various
temples. While five idols were recovered from a river bed in Vellore
district, one was seized from a Chennai lodge and the other five from
a Puducherry shop. All the arrested were remanded in judicial custody
on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a mansion in
Periamet, nabbed the priest, K Immanuel alias Sasikumar of Vellore, K
Madasamy of Tirunelveli and A Marichamy of Villupuram and recovered a
panchaloha idol of Lord Krishna.

Special teams then rushed to Pallur village near Arakkonam in
Vellore district and nabbed G Jagannathan alias Kithiyon and D Velu
of Pallur who said that five idols had been buried on the
Viruthaseera river bed. The police subsequently dug up the area on
the river bed where the idols were buried and recovered them.

"The two then said five Jain idols had also been stolen from a
Jain Temple in Easa Kolathur of Tiruvannamalai district and a team
raided Marichamy’s handicrafts shop in Puducherry and recovered the
idols. Another team arrested ex-convict P Pitchaimani from his house
in Rajapalayam," CB-CID additional director-general of police
(Economic Offences Wing) G Thilagavathy said.

The stolen Jain idols, identified as those of the 23rd
Tirthankara by a member of the community present at a press
conference at the CBCID EOW office here, each weighed 23 kg.

"Marichamy set up a handicrafts shop in Puducherry while
Immanuel, who studied to become a priest, later founded a church in
Pallur," an idol wing officer said.

"After coming close to Madasamy and Pitchaimani, Immanuel
identified dilapidated old temples and informed his associates,"
another officer said.

"The idols were then stolen and handed over to Pitchaimani.
Madasamy and Siva, another accused who is missing, then started
stealing idols on their own and selling them to Marichamy," the
officer said.

The sleuths also arrested S Gangachalam of Udaiyarpalayam near
Ariyalur and launched a hunt for ex-convict Vaithi for stealing three
panchaloha idols from the Ariyalur Lakshmi Narayanan temple that were
among the five recovered from the river bed in Vellore district.

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