The CCTV footage shows the vandals took hammers to the statue, first established at the park in 1962, to fell it

Pune: 4 members of the Sambhaji Brigade, who in the early hours of Tuesday vandalised a 54-year-old statue of playwright and humourist Ram Ganesh Gadkari (1885-1919), located at the Sambhaji Park on the Jangali Maharaj Road, were arrested soon after. They had gone on to throw the statue into a river. The members said that they were forced to act after their pleas to remove the statue fell on deaf ears.