India, Oct. 1 -- A 33-year-old government officer was critically injured on Monday after falling from the seventh floor of Shastri Bhawan while trying to escape a monkey attack. The man, who was on a phone call near a balcony when the animal startled him, lost balance and plunged down - the incident a reminder of the 2007 case when Delhi's deputy mayor SS Bajwa died after being attacked by monkeys at his home in Vivek Vihar.

The Bajwa case had pushed the Delhi High Court to direct relocation of monkeys to the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary. But nearly two decades later, and despite claims that more than 25,000 rhesus macaques have been shifted there, the Capital continues to live under a simian siege. For millions of residents, monkeys ...