WILD LIFE ACTIVIST KADIAN PROTESTS AGAINST VRINDAVAN LANGURS 

Vrindavan

 

"The langoors should be immediately released from captivity and sent to wilderness," an animal rights crusader Naresh Kadian has demanded, ahead of the presidents's Vrindavan visit on November 16.

 

Mathura district administration has sought the help of a dozen langoors to shoo away monkeys adept at running away with spectacles. The authorities fear some monkey could play the trick on president Pranab Mukherjee who wears glasses. "This could be highly embarassing for the local administration, and therefore we have hired langoors who have a natural antipathy with red-faced monkeys whose population in Vrindavan is in thousands," an official not wanting to be named, said.

 

The president of the Animal Welfare Party and wild-life  activist Naresh Kadian has lodged a complaint with the union ministry of environment and forests to "book all who are responsible for hiring langoors to shoo away monkeys in Vrindavan ahead of the president's visit on November 16."

 

Kadian said  "hiring of ten langoors to ensure safe visit of the president to the Sri Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan was violative of the provisions of the Wild Life Act." He  said the langoor " is a protected wild animal under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 read with the section 22 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960."

 

District magistrate Rajesh Kumar told the media Thursday evening that ten langoors had been brought to curb the monkey menace in the town, especially near the temple of Bihari ji, which the president is scheduled to visit, after the foundation stone laying ceremony of the world's tallest Sri Krishna temple Chandryan Mandir.

 

Naresh Kadian said the acceptance by the DM of Mathura of having hired the "langoor service" is an act of foolishness at the level of IAS, who is responsible for promoting crime, misuse of government funds to pay the owners of the langoors.

 

The Animal Welfare Party along with United Nation affiliated OIPA chapter in India has demanded  immediate rescue of all 10 captive langoors in Vrindavan, hired by the Mathura district administration. Kadian has asked the ministry  that all persons "responsible for capturing wild animal langoors and became custodians of these animals, abusing them for their personnel gain and profit, may kindly be booked under law along with the District Magistrate of Mathura under section IPC 120-B."

 

Naresh Kadian said that  President Mukherjee "will be accompanied by UP Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and scores of other high-profile politicians, during his visit to Varindavan on November 16, 2014. Animal Welfare Board of India and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau may kindly look in to for immediate attention, legal action against tainted offenders, the Chief Wildlife Warden of UP may kindly be directed to take up immediate step to control the population of monkeys, it is further demanded by Abhishek Kadian, non official member of the State Board for Wildlife, Haryana and Miss Sukanya Kadian, Volunteer of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau that monkey born and brought up in human habitat may kindly be de-recognised as wild monkey, which is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 because these kinds of animals looking like wild monkey by their shape and size but they do not have wild character, National Board for Wildlife may kindly take a note on it.?"