Indian police in New Delhi, the federal capital of India, have arrested two men strolling the streets of New Delhi who used apes to steal money and belongings of the pedestrians in the streets of the city.
An official at the local headquarters of the police revealed the two suspects were after receiving a complaint of a victim who said that three men carrying apes have surrounded him and stole 6000 rupees (about $ 80).
Authorities across India do their best to face the dangers of apes to the population of the federal capital and other populous cities.
Apes break into houses searching for food.
It is worth noting that a law enacted in India in 1972 prohibiting people from capturing or harm apes and other species of the apes that are still undomesticated in India.
The police official said when the victim sat behind the wheel in his car, the suspects and the two apes also broke into, one ape sat next to the victim and the other ape on the back seat.
One of the two apes snatched up the wallet out of one pocket of the victim and fled away with his colleague ape and the three men.
Police suspected that the criminals did more crimes in other districts of the capital.
The police officers formed a team to dog the suspects and they could arrest them and their accomplices.
Two men were arrested meanwhile the third man is still on the run and the animals were sent to a center of keeping the errant animals.
The Indians train apes to play in the streets.
Accidents of assailing people by hairy monkeys are frequent in India.
Last year a host of monkeys attacked a medical official in the northern part of the country and picked up blood samples taken from persons infected with The Coronavirus ( known also as COVID-19) of
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