Overview
- Video footage that circulated widely shows a female monkey entering a liquor shop in Ranchi’s Ormanjhi, taking a bottle, consuming alcohol and then lying down on stacked cartons.
- Multiple outlets report that a local rescue team was called to the scene, removed the animal and that the monkey later regained consciousness or left the shop.
- Accounts differ on the exact beverage and the amount consumed and one report that a shopkeeper was bitten when trying to drive the animal out remains unverified.
- Bystanders and shop staff initially filmed the episode and tried to distract the monkey with food items, and shopkeepers say the animal had been seen licking discarded bottles near the store in recent days.
- The episode underscores recurring human-wildlife conflict in Indian towns, raises animal-welfare and public-safety questions, and shows how user-generated clips can spread quickly while details remain inconsistent.