This town doesn't allow you to hire a monkey catcher for money or love

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is the body responsible for providing monkey catcher services like road repair and garbage collection. The MCD was also ordered by the court to capture the monkeys running wild through the city and relocate them to a wildlife sanctuary at the town's edge.

The MCD returned to court this week to claim it couldn't meet its responsibility, even though it ran dozens of newspaper ads and searched the monkey-management industry.

According to The News Paper, "Despite all efforts, only one monkey catcher has turned up...to undertake this work." The MCD stated in its request to court. This has led to a lot more difficulties in dealing the monkey menace.

The city stated that relying on untrained labor means that the monkeys are winning.

This is not a joke. S.S. Bajwa was the Delhi deputy mayor in 2007. He fell from his terrace and sustained head injuries. A group of monkeys attacked him while he was reading the morning paper.

Because of Hanuman, the Hindu god of monkeys, is revered here, but they are not killed, there is a strong animal-rights lobby that insists that they be relocated humanely.

According to the MCD, around 12,850 monkeys have been relocated since 2007. However, thousands of monkeys continue to jump from rooftop to roof in residential areas. They also prefer to colonize New Delhi's area home to many government offices.

Many ministries have full-time staff who patrol the exterior of buildings and throw pebbles at macaques that reach for open windows looking for food or, failing this, laptop keyboards or files.

Senior officials from the state electoral commission complained last year to the MCD about monkeys repeatedly trashing their office and chewing through their computer cables. This rendered them unable work.