{"id":214,"date":"2007-03-01T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php\/2007\/03\/01\/retrieval-of-indian-antiques-from-abroad\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T16:40:47","slug":"retrieval-of-indian-antiques-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Retrieval of Indian Antiques from Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMENDMENT IN ANTIQUITIES AND ART TREASURES ACT, 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni has said that the Government is proposing to make amendments to the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972 to make the provisions more stringent with a view to curb illegal trafficking in antiquities. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendments provide for periodical verification of the registered antiquities, higher punishments for commission of certain offences punishable under the Act, restrictions on transfer of antiquities to foreign nationals, restrictions in making unauthorized replicas of antiquities, making certain offences under the Act non-cognizable and non-bailable etc.  In a written reply she said, whenever reliable information is received about the presence of smuggled Indian antiquities in any other country, steps for its retrieval are being taken up in accordance with the establishment procedures.  Details of such cases under process presently are as under:<\/p>\n<p>CASES UNDER PROCESS FOR RETRIEVAL OF INDIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM ABROAD.<\/p>\n<p>(i) Five sculptures from British Museum, London.<br \/>\n(ii) Astronomical Tools (5) from Egypt.<br \/>\n(iii) One sculpture of Thirthankar from Washington.<br \/>\n(iv) One sculpture of nataraj from London (U.K.).<br \/>\n(v) One sculpture of Varah from Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}