Idol theft: DSP Kader Batcha held in Chennai

Chennai | Friday | 22nd March, 2019

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CHENNAI: The idol wing CID police on Thursday arrested deputy superintendent of police ( DSP Kader Batcha in connection with an idol theft case . In 2016, the idol wing police arrested international idol smuggler P Subhash Chandra Kapoor and a few others in connection the theft of idols from the Pazhavoor temple.After his arrest , Batcha was produced before a special court for idol wing cases in Kumbakonam in the early hours of Friday. The police nabbed Batcha from his friend’s residence in Chennai.The police informed him that he was arrested for colluding with some suspects in the theft of idols from the Sri Narumpoonatha Swamy Temple in Pazhavoor near Tirunelveli in 2005. He has been lodged in Trichy Central Prison. The court remanded him in judicial custody..