"This gang was trying to sell it for over Rs.5 crores. 10 persons have been arrested in this connection and have been charged for various offences," said Mysore district SP Abhinav Khare.
According to Mysore district SP Abhinav Khare the gang leader Sanath had the Quran. The gang members used to show the pictures of the gold coated Quran to prospective buyers on their mobile phones.
After cops learnt about it, they got the authenticity of this gold coated Quran verified by the historians and Islamic scholars.
The gang was then caught red handed on Monday August 10,2015 at Hosa Agrahara near KR Nagara. The police had sent a decoy to trap the sellers. According to some experts this copy of Quran belongs to Mogul emperor Akbar’s era. It has 604 pages and all pages are gold coated.
Eminent historian and former vice chancellor Prof. Sheikh Ali said that it is older than an ancient version which he had seen at a museum in Turkey. He opines that it was written between 1050 AD and 1605 AD.
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