Antique bowl taken from Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple; police conclude unintentional theft by Australian citizen
The Thiruvananthapuram City police investigated a suspected theft of an antique artefact from the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and determined that it was unintentional. The incident highlighted vulnerabilities in the temple’s high-security zone. The missing ‘Thalipaathram’, a vintage brass bowl used for puja, sparked a frantic search that led to Haryana. The artefact has Malayalam and…