How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago By Ateet Sharma ( IANS) | Published on Thu, Mar 11 2021 12:42 IST | 0 Views
How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago.. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi , March 11, Thirty-seven years after it was stolen and subsequently landed in the US, a stone stele of Lakshmi-Narayan, depicting the Hindu deities of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, is finally returning to its original home in Patan, a city located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Last week, Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the Ambassador of Nepal in Washington, received the statue of Vasudeva-Kamalaja (also known as Lakshmi-Narayan) handed over from the representative of the US Government Timothy Dunham, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a ceremony organized at the Nepalese embassy.