US hands over 105 stolen antique artefacts to India

National desk:

As many as 105 trafficked antiquities have been returned to India by the United States and will be back in India soon, officials say. A repatriation ceremony for these objects was held at the Indian Consulate in New York on Monday.Officials say the 105 artefacts represent a wide geographical spread in terms of their origin in India. Around 50 artefacts relate to religious subjects (Hinduism, Jainism and Islam) and the rest are of cultural significance, they add.