Monkeys banished

India's Supreme Court order the sterilization and banishment of 300 wild monkeys captured in downtown New Delhi.

The court ruled Tuesday on a citizen's petition about the public menace the monkeys pose, the Hindustan Times reported.

The court ordered the monkeys be shipped to the western province of Madhya Pradesh, whose tourism Web site says "has a thick forest cover and the countryside is sparsely populated."

Lawyers for the province argued against the migration of simians, saying they had become accustomed to city life and would not take to living in the countryside well but they were overruled, the newspaper said.