Woman held for scaring Mumbai local train commuters with monkey

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The government railway police (GRP) in Mumbai arrested a woman for scaring commuters with a monkey and extorting money from them.

The arrest happened at Ram Mandir railway station on the Western Railway.

The woman was identified as Renu Jadhav and is a beggar. According to GRP, Renu used to leave her monkey in the local train to scare the passengers from Palghar to Bandra and then demand money to take him back. "The monkey was from the forest of Nanded and was trained by the woman to harass commuters and not leave without money," Santosh Kank, a forest official told Hindustan Times.

The woman was presented before the court on Monday and was remanded in forest officials' custody of two days while the officials were directed to release the animal into the wild.

"We have arrested the woman and will take the monkey to the forest after a check-up by the animal doctors," Kank told the daily.

The monkey has now been handed over to the forest officials at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Borivli East.

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