monit service failed to start

Hi,

Getting below mention error message while starting the monit, please assist.

itsupport@xxx:/etc/monit$ sudo /etc/init.d/monit start
 * Starting daemon monitor
monit
*monit: The control file '/etc/monit/monitrc' must be owned by
you.
[fail]*
itsupport@xxx:/etc/monit$ ls -ltr
total 24
-rwx------ 1 itsupport itsupport 10753 Nov 17  2013 monitrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root       4096 Nov 17  2013 conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root       4096 May 24 12:47 templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 root      root       4096 May 24 12:47 monitrc.d

itsupport@xxxx:~$ ls -la .monitrc
-rwx------ 1 itsupport itsupport 56 May 24 13:37 .monitrc
itsupport@parthiban-Lenovo-G580:~$ who
itsupport :0           2018-05-24 14:08 (:0)
itsupport pts/1        2018-05-24 14:10 (:0)

Regards,Vikas

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