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6. The petitioner who claims to be a reporter, in his representation to the 1st respondent-the Director General of Police, Chennai, submits that the predecessors of Tr.Pon Manickavel carried on excellent work in idol wing CID and recovered more number of smuggled idols from countries like USA, UK, Canada etc, but the present Special Officer appointed suppressed all the facts about his predecessors and for his own fame, exaggerating all the matter of idol wing. In his representation dated 26.09.2019, the petitioner raised allegations about the data given by the Idol Team in respect of recovery of stolen idols by Tr.Pon Manickavel, retrieval and detection of idols belonging to the temple from it was stolen, seizure of idols, custody of those idols and the smugglers https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis/ W.P.No.32091 & 31647 of 2019 involved.
7. The petitioner alleges that the Special Officer did not locate the criminals who committed the theft and smuggling of idols, investigation conducted by him is inefficient and the investigation reports are not true. The petitioner therefore approached this court for direction to the 1st and 2nd respondent to form a team and investigate on due process of law.
8. In W.P.No.31647 of 2019, the petitioner questioned the veracity of Airavath Trust and seek direction to the 1st respondent to consider his representation dated 19.10.2019 and further to direct the 2nd respondent to conduct investigation against Airavath Trust for their collection of money to retain judiciary and the petitioner suspects that the real motive of the trust is for supporting Pon Manickavel or anyone. It is alleged that the idol smuggling network is a huge international smuggling network where hundreds and hundreds of crore amount have been in flow. It is submitted in the representation that the Airavath Trust collecting money is not only swindling process but also a grave economic crime.
13. It is submitted by the petitioner counsel that the 4th respondent shows one letter from Mrs.Lily Vijayarahavan addressed to the Chief Inspector of police, Idol Wing dated 11.02.2019 for voluntarily handing over all her stone antique idols with a condition that they will be kept in temples for worship. Though Mrs. Lily handed over those idols on 11.02.2019, no news came on any https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis/ W.P.No.32091 & 31647 of 2019 media about the voluntarily handing over of Antique idols and about the case registered so far, which clearly shows that there is involvement of malpractices by idol wing police to suppress some illegal activities of idol smuggling. They supposed to have registered a case and investigate the origin i.e place of theft of idols for which they failed to do so till November 2019. The learned counsel seeks for direction to the 2nd respondent to conduct an investigation in this regard also.