Overview

• At the Bidhuna tehsil office in Auraiya, a monkey opened a motorcycle’s storage and took a bag containing Rs 80,000.
• The animal climbed a tree and hurled currency notes, prompting a scramble as people grabbed the falling cash.
• The money belonged to private school teacher Rohitash Chandra, who had come to complete a land deed registration.
• Only Rs 52,000 was recovered after the chaos, with roughly Rs 28,000 missing or reportedly torn.
• Locals report frequent incidents of monkeys snatching bags, documents and food at the campus, and video of this episode circulated widely online.