Ghaziabad, Feb. 27 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Allahabad High Court that it requires at least one year to prepare a brief action plan on the population status and conflict pattern of monkeys during a hearing on the growing incidence of human-monkey conflict.

Manish Goyal, additional advocate general (AAG) on behalf of the UP government, made the submissions before the high court during a February 17 hearing related to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). The order was uploaded this Wednesday.

The court was addressing the plea filed by Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar residents, Vinit Sharma and Prajakta Singhal, highlighting the growing incidence of human-monkey conflict due to an alleged uncontrolled and exponential rise of monkey...