Captured, bound and caged: The moment justice caught up with a MONKEY that had harassed Indian locals for six months
- The monkey was caught by a professional catcher in Mumbia, India
- Locals said it had been stealing food and ripping pillows for six months
- Macaque monkey was tied up with ankles tied and hands behind its back
- Its shackles were removed when it was put into the cage and fed grapes
A monkey has been pictured with its hands tied behind its back and tugging at the rope around its ankles with its teeth after it was captured for terrorising a Mumbai community.
The primate - a macaque - was caught by a professional monkey catcher after frustrated locals complained it had been stealing food and tearing up pillows for six months.
According to AFP, a crowd gathered in India's commercial capital Sion and cheered as the monkey was bound with its hands tied and a rope around its neck before it was put into a cage.
Captured: The trouble-making monkey was pictured with its hands and ankles bound after it was captured
Bound: The monkey catcher tied the macaque's hands behind its back and a rope around its neck
Forlorn: After the monkey was untied and caged, it reportedly looked longingly at passersby
It was one of three or four monkeys to have been tearing around the community in the Mumbai's central district and residents recently complained to a local municipal councillor about the unwelcome guests.
Monkeys, who are revered in Hindu-majority India, often trash gardens, offices, residential rooftops and even attack people viciously for food - but are rarely subjected to such public humiliation.
When locals spotted one of the primates on Friday morning they called a monkey catcher who hot-footed it to the housing block and laid a trap with fruit.
Caught: The monkey was one of a group that stole food and ripped up pillows for six months in Mumbai
Teeth: A passerby tried to stoke the bound primate, but it hissed aggressively before showing its teeth
Revered: Monkeys are revered in Hindu-majority India and not often subjected to public humiliation
Set free: After the monkeys imprisonment, it was later set free from the cage and shackles in the countryside
At one point a passerby patted it on the forehead, only for the monkey to hiss aggressively before showing him a full set of sharp teeth.
Later the shackles were removed from the monkey and it was placed in the cage, where it ate grapes and looked forlornly at the crowd of staring onlookers.
The monkey is now set for a new life in the countryside north of Mumbai.
'We will make sure it's fit and when it is we will release him on the outskirts of Thane,' an official in the Maharashtra state forest department told AFP.
New life: A Maharashtra state forest department official said they would ensure the monkey's health before it was released back into the wild
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