The court stated, "Monkeys will continue to procreate every day and not wait for official meetings."
The Delhi High Court rapped the Centre on Thursday for failing to give a clear on whether it was willing to import vaccines to sterilise monkeys to arrest their growing population in the national Capital and other parts of the country. The court stated, "Monkeys will continue to procreate every day and not wait for official meetings."
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also criticised the Centre for its inability to take concrete measures even 17 years after the PIL before it to deal with the monkey menace was filed. The PIL was filed in 2001.
"We want action, not discussions and meetings. The monkeys are not going to wait for your meetings. They are procreating each day. It is an hour-to-hour problem and brooks no delay. People are vacating whole colonies near the Asola sanctuary where they were relocated," the court said.
It further observed, "The discussions and meetings should have been over by now. If you proceed like this, the matter will go on for another 18 years." The bench added it was "hopelessly failing in making the government do its job."
The court reacted sharply after Additional Solicitor General Maninder Acharya sought more time to take instructions from the government on importing vaccine since it cannot be decided "overnight". The court said that it was pushing the matter for the past six months, and it was not overnight for the government to take a call. "The government was more focused on spending money to protect electric poles and buildings by surrounding them with spikes and cages that injured the monkeys, but appeared less concerned with protecting people from the simians, the court said.
PIL FILED
The court was hearing a PIL, filed through advocate Meera Bhatia, seeking directions to the authorities to take steps to deal with the menace of monkeys and dogs here.
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