Quipped Ganga Ram, a young farm labourer, "Maneka Gandhi remains moreconcerned about animals than she is about human beings." He went on tonarrate an incident of 2002 when as Union Minister for Social Justice, Manekameted out the biggest injustice to the priest of a Hanuman temple along thePuranpur road. Maneka ordered local officials in Pilibhit to pull down thetemple simply because a stray monkey entrusted to the temple priest's custody byher, escaped into the wilderness. Rajesh Giri, the temple priest has not forgottenthe trauma that he had to go through on that account . "Had it not been forviolent reaction to the demolition provoking hundreds of villagers to stage aroad-block , followed by a court petition, the temple would not have been thereand I would have been behind bars" Giri recalls .