Agra, Jul 21 (IExpress) : A simian stole a purse from a devotee near Banke Bihari temple and ran around the place dropping the Rs 500 notes for people to pick it up. Further inquiring people in the vicinity, the sobbing woman told people who listened that she was on a trip with her husband and her daughters to Agra, Mathura and Vrindavan.

Things went crazy when the monkey sat on top of a ledge, and took out the cash from the bag and started waving it. Suddenly it flung them in the air, a number kids and women who begged outside the temple rushed around the place to collect what they can.

Akshat Goswami, a devotee who regularly visits the temple says that a temple worker’s son turned rich as he collected Rs 30,000.

The monkey menace is quite prevalent in the Vrindavan and known to steal expensive cameras, phones and sunglasses. Even Preseident Pranab Mukherjee was warned of the menace when he wanted to visit Vrindavan last November. Even recently, a 75-year-old man Madhav Kunj reportedly died by falling from a terrace due to monkeys chasing him.

Sanjay Jaiswal, Vrindavan police inspector told to Times of India that he was aware of the incidents but no one approached him with a formal complaint.