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more-inThe Idol Wing police have intensified their investigation to trace the missing icons from the safe centre at the Sri Pasupatheeswarar temple at Pandanallur near here, with search operations on Monday and Tuesday. “We are looking for a 1955 register that could hold the key to the exact number of icons stolen. Led by the Inspector General of Police, Idol Wing, A.G.
Pon Manickavel, teams scanned the safe centre for the original records. The accused in the case pertaining to the missing idols maintain that as per records there were 434 icons including 107 idols in the safe centre in Kumbakonam. Deities dismantledPolice also interrogated priests and hereditary trustees of village temples whose icons had been kept at the Pandanallur safe centre and reported lost or missing..