HOWRAH: A cat-and-mouse ensued between three

and residents of

’s Maju area in

after the primates picked up a vessel, containing 3 bhori gold

, mistaking it for food.

The langurs later left the gold ornaments on the

of a house.

On Thursday evening, the vessel was kept beside a window of a house, when the langurs suddenly came there and picked it up.

When the family members raised an alarm, the langurs started fleeing with the gold ornaments. While they ran with the vessel, they kept smelling the gold to find out whether it was food or not.

When they realized it was not food, the pack kept back the gold inside the vessel and left it on the roof of a house.