Coimbatore: Idol seized turns out to be decorative piece

COIMBATORE: In a goof, the RS Puram police seized an idol, which appeared to be made of bronze, from a city resident’s house on Monday night believing that to be stolen from a temple, but only to realize the next morning that the same was a decorative piece and not made of bronze.
A police officer, who didn’t want to be named, said they came across Ashwin Prakash, who behaved in a strange manner, during the night patrol. “When we questioned him and asked for his address, Prakash said he was feeding stray dogs. We accompanied him to his house and found the idol during the raid.”
Since the idol appeared to be made of brass, police confiscated the same and kept that in the station. “Further probe revealed that Prakash was genuinely feeding the street dogs at RS Puram and that the idol was made of steel or iron with brass coating that he used to rent out to marriage halls,” the officer said.