The statue was first installed at Sambhaji Park in 1962

Pune: Members of the Sambhaji Brigade vandalised a 54-year-old statue of playwright and humourist Ram Ganesh Gadkari (1885-1919), located at the Sambhaji Park in the Deccan Gymkhana area, early today morning. They later threw 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.