monit service failed to start

[vikas ga]

Hi,

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

address@hidden:/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]
address@hidden:/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

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

Regards,Vikas