and then will cost the city up to $100,000 to replace — but no money currently exists to remake it, city officials say. The likeness of 1600s-era Indian ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj riding a horse, installed over two decades ago as a symbol of friendship between the sister cities of San Jose and Pune the ninth-most-populous city in India, was swiped from Guadalupe River Park in January. The statue, sawed off at the hooves, was then found days later by this news organization, sitting next to a Coke machine at a metal scrapyard that has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement for years. A police investigation never found a…
