308:... Similarly, we discovered the iconic Nataraja from Punnainallur based on a tip we received from a confidential informant "SP" who provided us inputs—from an elderly priest—of a theft that happened in 1971 from the temple with the FIR closed as untraceable. We worked with the local sources to dig out the temple asset register and old institutional photographs. Armed with these we managed to trace the Nataraja to the "reputed" Asia Society Museum in New York. ...
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