Shooting videos of the famous Sun Temple here with a drone camera landed two Russian tourists in trouble on Tuesday morning when the duo, on a tour to Odisha, visited the World Heritage Site.
While they were taking the videos, Archeological Survey of India (ASI) officials objected to it as it is not permissible to fly a copter over the 13th-century monument.
The foreign tourists were detained for interrogation, sources said.
Notably, a similar incident had taken place on Saturday last and a foreign national was caught shooting with the air-borne device. After local tourists objected to it, police and ASI officials whisked him away to the office. After deletion of the recordings, he was allowed to leave.