PRAYAGRAJ, May 16 -- Amidst rising incidents of monkey menace, including attacks on residents of different localities, the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to employ monkey catchers for the first time.

The plan is to get the monkeys caught from the worst affected localities like Jhunsi and Daraganj etc, and get them released in appropriate places having their natural habitat away from densely populated localities, informed civic officials.

The step comes close on the heels of Allahabad high court issuing notices to the Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Uttar Pradesh government, and others in response to a PIL highlighting the rising monkey population, increasing man-m...