A 12th-C bronze Buddha stolen from India was returned after it was discovered at a trade fair in the UK by members of the Association for research into Crimes Against Art and the India Pride Project, which aims to recover stolen artefacts. They alerted the owner and dealer, who are not accused of any wrongdoing, and who agreed for its return. It was one of 14 statues ransacked from the Archaeological Museum in Nalanda in 1961. It changed hands several times before eventually being sent to London. The sculpture was handed over to the Indian HC in UK, Y K Sinha, by Detective Constable Sophie Hayes, of the Metropolitan police’s art and antiques unit coinciding with India’s Independence day celebrations.