Lucknow: In a weird kind of incident, an eight year old girl was found playing with a group of monkeys in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district by the local people recently who has been given name of ‘Mowgli girl’ by the police personals as she has been handed to them by locals.
According to police officials, the girl can neither speak nor behave like normal human beings and she walks by using her both hands and legs just like monkeys as it is believed that she has been raised her in Uttar Pradesh’s Katarniyaghat wildlife sanctuary until she was rescued.
She was first spotted by villagers foraging in the forests of the sanctuary’s Motipur range in January.
Interestingly, when the cops tried to rescue the girl, who seemed to be comfortable with the apes, they screeched at him and so did the girl.
The girl can neither speak nor understands any language, and gets scared at the sight of human beings.
At the time when she was rescued, the child was naked with a mop of matted hair, tanned by exposure to the elements, and claw-like nails.
Some locals informed police about the unusual sighting and a team brought her to civilization.
According to additional superintendent of police Dinesh Tripathi said, “She had wounds on her body. Our priority is to give her proper medical care and look for her parents.”
The girl has been kept from past two months at the Bahraich hospital has helped the girl overcome her fears.
Dinesh said, “She was unable to communicate or understood any language. She has spent many years with animals and, so, behaved like them.”
“Now she understands signals and is able to identify the ward boy, nurse and other medical staff. It seems the girl had been abandoned in the forest area at an early age.”
Singh added he had sought help to put the girl in an institution where she could learn human behaviour and language. “But the authorities turned down my request.”
