The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has informed on 23.06.2010 that Department of Home Land Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York have located one stone sculpture from ruins of Temples (Gargach Temple) Atru, District-Baran (Rajasthan) which was stolen/smuggled on 22-23 April, 2009. FIR was lodged on 23.04.2009 no.96/09.
No stolen/lost antiquities have been retrieved/recovered during the last three years.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Kumari Selja said, the Archaeological Survey of India has taken adequate steps to prevent thefts and smuggling of antiquities from the centrally protected monuments, sites and museums. Round the clock watch and ward staff have been deployed and their strength has further been augmented by deploying private security guards, State Police armed guards and Central Industrial Security Force. Archaeological Survey of India is in close liaison with Central Bureau of Investigation, Customs authorities, Department of Revenue Intelligence and Local Police authorities to share information on the smuggling of antiquities. India is also a signatory to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Trafficking in cultural property.
No stolen/lost antiquities have been retrieved/recovered during the last three years.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Kumari Selja said, the Archaeological Survey of India has taken adequate steps to prevent thefts and smuggling of antiquities from the centrally protected monuments, sites and museums. Round the clock watch and ward staff have been deployed and their strength has further been augmented by deploying private security guards, State Police armed guards and Central Industrial Security Force. Archaeological Survey of India is in close liaison with Central Bureau of Investigation, Customs authorities, Department of Revenue Intelligence and Local Police authorities to share information on the smuggling of antiquities. India is also a signatory to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Trafficking in cultural property.
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