The victim’s body was recovered from the roof of a neighbour’s house.
The incident took place in Kachhara Thok colony of Runkata area near NH-2 when the victim’s mother Neha was feeding the baby.
Yogesh, the victim’s father, an auto-rickshaw driver said, "The main door of the house was open, and my wife was breastfeeding our son, suddenly a monkey barged inside our house and grabbed the child by his neck.”
“Before Neha could understand anything, the monkey took away our son. After a chase, the monkey left our son on a neighbour’s roof but it was too late, Arush was heavily bleeding and had no pulse. We took him to a nearby private hospital, where he was declared dead,” added Yogesh.
According to local residents, 15 minutes before snatching away Arush, the same monkey also attempted to attack a 14-year-old girl, who sustained minor injuries while escaping.
Arush was the only son of the couple who have been married for the last two-years.
Speaking to TOI, sub-inspector Atbir Singh, in-charge of Runkata police outpost said, “The victim’s body has been sent for post-mortem and would be handed over to the family soon.
The toddler's skull and neck suffered grave injuries- we saw the open wounds.”
Police informed that, “Two months ago, another toddler was attacked in the same colony by a monkey, but the victim survived and is currently in hospital.”
In a similar attack last month, a youth on motor-bike was killed on MG road after a group of monkeys came in front of him, and the victim lost his balance and rammed into divider.