A MONKEY, given the nickname "Robin Hood" by local people, has showered stolen banknotes onto lucky passers-by in the northern Indian hill town of Shimla, news reports say.

THE monkey embarked on its personal wealth redistribution scheme on Sunday, by first throwing money from a bag from a rooftop and then from a tree, before disappearing into the nearby jungle, India Today reported on Tuesday.

Originally published asMonkey money spread in Indian town