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ALLAHABAD: Kaushambi police on Tuesday arrested two idol smugglers near Narsinghpur Kachua on Allahabad-Kaushambi highway and recovered an ashtadhatu idol of elephant weighing around six kgs and a mobike from them.SP Kaushambi Pradeep Gupta said, "The cost of recovered ashtadhatu idol in international market is around Rs 1 crore. "He added a case under section 413 of IPC has been registered against the arrested smugglers. The police have written to the officials of Archaeological Survey of India to compile more details about the idol. The SP claimed that the recovered idol contained about 52% gold.During interrogation, arrested idol smugglers revealed that they had purchased the idol from one Vishal Kumar, a resident of Rai Bareilly , for Rs 10 lakh and were planning to sell it in Allahabad.The police said they have been looking for Vishal to know as to how and where he got the idol.