You must have heard the story of Arif and Saras, living in Mandka village of Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. A similar case of friendship between animals and humans has now been seen in Lakhimpur Kheri district. Here a monkey is seen mourning the death of a farmer. The monkey is seen lying on the ground and somewhere placing his hands on his family members, as if he is consoling them. It is being told that the monkey has taken the last darshan of his farmer friend by picking up the cloth from his bier.
According to the information, this case is of Gondhiya village of Bijua area of Lakhimpur Kheri. Chandan Verma, a 62-year-old farmer living here, died on Monday. Chandan was ill for a long time. When people had come to the house after Chandan’s death and preparations were going on for his funeral, at that time a monkey came into the house. That monkey remained sitting among the people sitting there for a long time and kept mourning the death of Chandan.
Near the dead body of farmer Chandan, his family members, including some women, were sitting and they were crying. The monkey went near them and sat down, placing his hand on them. It seemed as if the monkey was consoling them. Even after mourning the death of his friend for a long time, the monkey remained sitting there. The dead body of the farmer was covered with a sheet, so the monkey removed that sheet and also had the last glimpse of his friend. When the last journey of the farmer started, the monkey also accompanied the last journey for some distance, after which he went towards the forest.
Local people told that whenever Chandan Verma went to the fields, he used to take rotis for the monkeys every day. This monkey lived with him on the farm for a long time. Before leaving home, he would definitely take a loaf of bread in her name. But for the last two months his health was deteriorating and he had suffered an attack of paralysis. After this he stopped leaving the house. When he died on Monday, the monkey came to see him for the last time. Everyone was surprised that how did the news of the death of monkey farmer Chandan come?