{"id":635417,"date":"2026-06-12T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635417\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:48:09","slug":"rare-indian-statues-stolen-from-garden-near-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635417\/","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":635418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}