{"id":496114,"date":"2026-06-12T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:50:09","slug":"rare-indian-statues-stolen-from-garden-near-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496114\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Indian statues stolen from garden near Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are appealing for information after two rare Indian statues were stolen from a house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bronze statues were taken from Church Lane, Sutton, near Ely, between 26 and 29 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are replicas of statues dating back to the Chola period, a dynasty originating from Southern India, between the ninth and 13th centuries and were handcrafted in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said: &#8220;The victim would just like his statues back as they mean a lot to him. If anyone has seen the statues for sale on social media or at car boot sale, [we] would urge them to get in touch with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after two rare Indian statues were stolen from a house. The bronze statues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-496114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}