Sunil Ganu, a member of San Jose’s Indian-American community who helped get the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue installed in 2002, with what remains of the statue on Feb. 8, 2023, at Guadalupe River Park in San Jose, Calif. The statue was reported missing on Jan. 31. The aftermath shows that the statue, an Indian ruler from the 1600s of a man riding a horse, was sawed off at the horse’s hooves. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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