In a shocking incident, a monkey ‘robbed’ a man and his daughter of Rs 1,40,000 on Monday, as they were about to enter a bank. Aggrieved shopkeeper Vijay Bansal said he would meet senior police officials on Wednesday after the local police said they were clueless about the section under which a case could be registered.
Vijay Bansal with his daughter Nancy in Agra. (HT Photo)
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Bansal said he was about to enter the Indian Overseas bank located on the first floor of an under renovation building in the Nai Ki Mandi area at around 10.30am, when the incident took place. His daughter Nancy, 17, was holding the polythene bag that contained around Rs 2 lakh cash.
“There were many monkeys and one of them suddenly snatched the bag as we were climbing the stairs. The monkey quickly moved to the top floors and we couldn’t do anything,” said Bansal, who has small jewellery shop in Rawli.
“The bank guard and others turned up, as the monkey tore up the bag and scattered Rs 60,000, which were recovered. We rushed to the ground floor to collect this money. We also tried offering edibles to the monkey to get back the bag,” he said.
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“Police at Nai Ki Mandi came for assistance, but the money could not be recovered. I am not aware of the legal provisions, but my hard earned savings are gone,” he said, adding that he was in debt.
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“Police at Nai Ki Mandi came for assistance, but the money could not be recovered. I am not aware of the legal provisions, but my hard earned savings are gone,” he said, adding that he was in debt.
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Meanwhile, CP Sharma, in-charge of Nai Ki Mandi police station, said, “At most, we can note down the information provided. But we can’t find the provision of law under which his case can be registered.”
Bansal is now pinning hopes on SSP Agra Amit Pathak whom he would meet at the collectorate on Wednesday.
Agra has been plagued by the monkey menace for a long time. Recently, a tourist at Taj Mahal and a medical student were injured in monkey attacks.
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.
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