Monkey Thief Captured, Bound And Caged By Locals After Months Of Menace

Monkeys have been known to terrorize children and adults with their abrupt attacks in India. One such monkey, the protagonist of this story, had been paying regular visits for six months to a residential community in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital.

People of the community had complained to the local municipal counselor that the monkey had been allegedly ripping apart pillows or stealing food from homes. When no help came, the locals took matters in their own hands and called for a professional monkey catcher to put an end to the nuisance. A trap was laid with a fruit to draw the monkey.

According to AFP, the residents of Mumbai's Sion area gathered gleefully after the monkey was finally captured. Its hands, legs and neck had been bound. A photo from the incident, that took place in 2016, showed the monkey baring its teeth aggressively when a passerby tried patting its head.

Later, its shackles had been removed and the monkey was put inside a cage for transport.

“We will make sure it’s fit and when it is we will release him on the outskirts of Thane,” an official in the Maharashtra state forest department had told AFP.

In India, monkeys usually swarm the religious places and people count them as a part of the holiness. It is a rare incident in which a monkey had been publicly humiliated. No one was reprimanded for abusing the monkey.