The incident took place when Advocate S Selvakumari was entering through Gate No G located beside the top court museum when she was suddenly attacked by a bunch of monkeys leaving her with a bite wound in her right thigh
A lawyer was attacked by monkeys on the premises of the Supreme Court on Thursday as she was entering the campus. The incident took place when Advocate S Selvakumari was entering through Gate No G located beside the top court museum when she was suddenly attacked by a bunch of monkeys leaving her with a bite wound in her right thigh.
Selvakumari rushed to the first aid clinic of the apex court but the dispensary was undergoing renovation, a Bar and Bench report said.
“I tried to enter the Supreme Court and one of the monkeys bit my thigh. There was no one to save me also outside the gate area. No one was stationed, then when I rushed to the Supreme Court dispensary, there was renovation work going on,” Selvakumari was quoted byBar and Bench as saying.
A permanent member of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Selvakumari’s friends rushed her to the polyclinic located near the Registrar’s Court but “no medicines” were available there as well.
“There were some doctors in the polyclinic… they only cleaned up the wound. But there were no first aid medicines. Nothing at all. I was just asked to go to Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital,” she said.
Selvakumari then went to the Delhi High Court dispensary where she received a tetanus injection.
“After that, I went to RML hospital and I got another three injections. Thereafter, another two injections today. Now I have some reactions in my body. There is a lot of fever and mental trauma. They should have at least the bare minimum of medicines. No one to ward off the monkeys also at the gate or save from such incident” said the lawyer.
