Staff Reporter
In the wake of strong criticism over the theft of 1,500-year-old two rare terracotta statues of Hindu god Vishnu, the government yesterday decided not to send the second consignment of 143 artefacts for exhibition in Guimet Museum in Paris.
The decision was taken at a special meeting of the Council of Advisers taking the “public sentiment into account.”
The meeting, chaired by Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed at his office, took the decision after thoroughly reviewing the situation involving the dispatch of the artefacts to France.

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