Pic/PTISenior bureaucrats from the MEA told mid-day that it was the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, which built a strong case seeking return of the stolen artefacts. It later came to the fore that a person named Subhash Kapoor had abandoned the consignment. Upon confiscation and scrutiny of the consignment, ICE recovered rare Indian art and artefacts. One such establishment operated by Kapoor was Art of the Past, an art gallery at 1242 Madison Avenue in NY. A senior bureaucrat said, “Subash is in Chennai because an FIR related to the missing idols was filed there.

Source: Mid-Day June 10, 2016 03:22 UTC