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"As Canada returns Khajuraho statue, US begins process to repatriate hundreds of stolen Indian artefacts
On Tuesday, a day before Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gifted Prime Minister Narendra Modi a 900-year-old statue stolen from Khajuraho, the New York District Attorney asked a court for the custody $100 million dollars worth of artefacts associated with tainted arts dealer Subhash Kapoor. This is the largest seizure of antiquities in the history of the US – there are 2,622 artefacts in the Kapoor collection.
In January 2014, the US returned three sandstone sculptures of Vishnu, Laxmi and Buddha to India,
In September, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott returned a dancing Nataraja and an Ardhanarishwara statue, both stolen by Kapoor, as a gesture of goodwill. January brought the news of another ghar wapsi, this time of a 2,000-year-old Buddha statue smuggled by Kapoor that the National Gallery of Australia had for years denied any wrongdoing around.
http://scroll.in/article/721130/As-Canada-returns-Khajuraho-statue,-US-begins-process-to-repatriate-hundreds-of-stolen-Indian-artefacts
"As Canada returns Khajuraho statue, US begins process to repatriate hundreds of stolen Indian artefacts
On Tuesday, a day before Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gifted Prime Minister Narendra Modi a 900-year-old statue stolen from Khajuraho, the New York District Attorney asked a court for the custody $100 million dollars worth of artefacts associated with tainted arts dealer Subhash Kapoor. This is the largest seizure of antiquities in the history of the US – there are 2,622 artefacts in the Kapoor collection.
In January 2014, the US returned three sandstone sculptures of Vishnu, Laxmi and Buddha to India,
In September, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott returned a dancing Nataraja and an Ardhanarishwara statue, both stolen by Kapoor, as a gesture of goodwill. January brought the news of another ghar wapsi, this time of a 2,000-year-old Buddha statue smuggled by Kapoor that the National Gallery of Australia had for years denied any wrongdoing around.
http://scroll.in/article/721130/As-Canada-returns-Khajuraho-statue,-US-begins-process-to-repatriate-hundreds-of-stolen-Indian-artefacts
