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Bareilly: After receiving several complaints from residents and various government departments about monkey menace, the forest department is set to constitute a committee of experts to identify areas from where monkeys will be caught. Besides, monkeys often create havoc in localities like Civil Lines, Biharipur, Madinath, Subhashnagar, Quila and various parts of old city. We will set up a district-level committee this week comprising municipal commissioner, NGO working for animals, DFO of the concerned forest where monkeys will be released and I. As a large number of cases are reported every day, the hospital at times runs out of anti-rabies vaccine stock.” According to officials, there are more than 5,000 monkeys in Bareilly district.After monkeys are caught, they will be released in a forest area, thus the committee will also have the divisional forest officer of that forest as its member.Bareilly divisional forest officer (DFO) Bharat Lal said, “Principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) Pawan Kumar has given approval to catch and release monkeys in the forest area..