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Capital monkeys kill Delhi’s deputy mayor

October 23, 2007 posted by indiatime |

Last Saturday, the day before Dussehra, a wild pack of monkeys killed S. S. Bajwa, the deputy mayor of New Delhi. Mr. Bajwa was a BJP corporator who was also the vice-president of its local party office. While strolling in his balcony, Mr. Bajwa was suddenly attacked by several wild monkeys, lost his balance, fell from the first floor balcony, later succumbing to his head injuries.

New Delhi’s residential buildings, temples, and government buildings are swamped by wild rhesus monkeys and the local court had reprimanded the city corporation for not doing enough to control the menace. A few years ago, governmental agencies came up with a plan to scare away small rhesus monkeys by employing larger monkeys - langurs. Some government offices use cages for the officials (not for the monkeys) so they can do their work in peace. Delhi’s local government had even planned to catch the monkeys and ship them out of states, but other states refused contending they had their own monkey issues.

A few years ago, there were sightings of a 4-feet tall ’smallfoot’ monkey-man in the streets of New Delhi, and the residents even beat up some fellow 4-feet tall Delhiites.

Since attempts to export monkeys to other states have failed, authorities should loook into exporting monkeys across international borders. It is well known and well documented that Pakistan routinely exports menacing terrorists across the Indo-Pak border. Maybe India should start reciprocating with exporting Delhi’s menacing monkeys back to Pakistan beyond the Line of Control!


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