Who took the Indian ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue from San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park?
A 440-pound metal statue has disappeared from Guadalupe River Park, dismaying community members who treasure it as an important symbol of friendship between San Jose and its sister city of Pune in western India.Standing approximately 4 feet tall atop a large concrete cube, the statue features a 1600s-era Indian ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj heroically riding a horse with his outstretched hand grasping a sword.
“People are very upset,” said San Jose resident Sunil Ganu, who helped facilitate the statue’s transfer from Pune in 1999. “A lot of people have an emotional attachment to that statue.” The statue’s origins — and its first theft — date back to 1992, when San Jose first became a sister city with Pune, an inland city of 4 million in the state of Maharashtra. As a gift to San Jose, now-deceased sculptor B.R. Khedkar sent the statue over to the city seven years later.
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