Melakasakudy is a revenue village in the Karaikal taluk of Puducherry District.
An ancient Varatharaja Perumal temple is present in the village.
A volunteer-collective India Pride Project has traced the remaining idols to few museums/institutions in the Western world.
[1] Similar idol theft was reported from the Tantondreeswara temple in the nearby Nedungadu, beyond the Nattar River in 1959.
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