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Trying our best to curb monkey menace: civic bodies

Staff Reporter

High Court tells them to chalk out action plan by February 6

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Municipal Commissioner and the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Chairman on Wednesday appeared in person before the Delhi High Court and submitted that they were trying their best to deal with the monkey menace in the Capital.

The two had appeared before a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Hima Kohli on summonses asking them to inform it about the measures they had taken to fight the monkey menace in the city.

The Court had also summoned the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Vice-Chairman but he did not appear.

Later, the Bench directed the DDA Vice-Chairman, the MCD Commissioner and the NDMC Chairman to hold a meeting and chalk out an action-plan to deal with the menace, and inform the Court about it on February 6, failing which it would summon the officials again.

The directions came on a pending public interest litigation filed by advocate Meira Bhatia.

At the last hearing, counsel for the Delhi Government had submitted that Delhi has just one centre to keep monkeys caught from public places and at present it was packed.

The petitioner has sought directions for implementation of an earlier order of the High Court asking the authorities concerned to check the monkey menace in the city.

Ms. Bhatia submitted that despite several judicial directions issued to the respondents to take steps to rid the city of the menace by this Court over the years, they had failed to take any action.

She submitted that the menace had assumed serious proportions as the monkey population had grown in the city.

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