Monkey Attack Leaves Government Officer Critically Injured in Delhi

On October 1st, 2025, a 33-year-old government officer was critically injured after falling from the seventh floor of Shastri Bhawan in Delhi. The incident occurred when the officer, who was on a phone call near a balcony, was startled by a monkey, causing him to lose his balance and plummet down.

This tragic event serves as a reminder of a similar incident that occurred in 2007, when Delhi's deputy mayor SS Bajwa died after being attacked by monkeys at his home in Vivek Vihar. The Bajwa case had prompted the Delhi High Court to direct the relocation of monkeys to the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary.

However, nearly two decades later, the Capital continues to grapple with a simian siege. Experts and officials have revealed that the years-old relocation program has moved at a crawl, hampered by a shortage of trained catchers, legal disputes over who controls the issue, and the absence of barriers at Asola, which lacks natural food sources and fencing, allowing monkeys to easily return to residential neighborhoods.

The result has been a patchwork of improvised measures by various agencies, including the use of Langur cutouts at intersections and the hiring of workers to chase monkeys away from VVIP areas. This administrative failure has left entire neighborhoods exposed, with residents across central Delhi reporting regular harassment from the primates.