Indiatimes

Steps on to get back 500-yr-old temple idol from Oxford museum

Trichy: Idol wing CID (IWCID) of Tamil Nadu police is working to bring back a 500-year-old antique metal idol of saint poet Thirumangai Alwar of Soundararaja Perumal temple in Sundara Perumal Kovil ...
Indiatimes

London returns stolen idol to Tamil Nadu temple after 60 years

The IWCID said the council had accepted the fact that the Thirumangai Alwar bronze idol had been illegally removed from the Soundararaja Perumal Temple in a village near Kumbakonam.
The Hindu

Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return stolen Thirumangai Alwar idol purchased by it in 1967: T.N. police

A rare variant bronze statue of saint-poet Thirumangai Alwar, worth several crores of rupees, will be repatriated from Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to Tamil Nadu, after it was found that it was stolen ...
The New Indian Express

Oxford museum agrees to repatriate stolen Thirumangai Alwar idol to TN

CHENNAI: Oxford University in London has agreed to repatriate the Thirumangai Alwar Bronze Idol, which was illegally removed from a temple at Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu between 1957 and 1967 and is ...