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Antique Koran seized

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THREE ARRESTED: One of the two copies of the Holy Koran dating back to the Mughal period, seized by the Crime Branch police, being displayed in New Delhi on Saturday. Three persons were arrested in this connection. The two pieces of “Quran Mazid” in Arabic, most of it in golden letters, belong to the period of either Shahjahan or Aurangazeb, according to Archaeological Survey of India officials.

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