Karnataka, January 7: Former minister and JD(S) MLA SR Mahesh recently cut short his Singapore trip after his favourite pet monkey 'Chintu' was electrocuted at family's farmhouse at Saligrama in KR Nagar taluk. According to a Times of India report, three-year-old Chintu on January 1 accidentally fell on an electric wire passing over the farm and got killed.

Mahesh was scheduled to return on January 4, but on hearing the tragic news, he preponed his plans and immediately came back to the country to perform Chintu's last rites. The monkey was brought from Chunchanakatte when it was just two-months-old and ever since then stayed at the farm. Uttarakhand: Two Elephants Killed After Being Hit by Nanda Devi Express Train in Haridwar.

Both Mahesh and his son were extremely close to the monkey, whom they fondly named Chintu. The driver of the MLA said that whenever Mahesh used to visit the farmhouse and from the moment he got down from his car, Chintu used to hold his hand.

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