Free as a bird!
A pigeon accused of being a Chinese spy and spent eight months in Indian custody was released into the wild Tuesday after police determined the bird was innocent.
The chicken was captured near Mumbai harbor in May when members of the public saw two rings tied to its legs with words written in Chinese characters, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
The writing led Indian police to suspect the furry creature might be a Chinese agent seeking classified intelligence from India — à la China’s infamous spy balloon.
They took the bird into custody for investigation and then transferred it to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Pet Hospital.
The investigation found that the “flying rat” was not a Chinese spy but an open water dolphin that escaped from Taiwan and migrated to India.
A pigeon captured eight months near a port, after being suspected of being a Chinese spy, is released at a veterinary hospital in Mumbai on January 30, 2024. AP
After it was cleared of any espionage, the pigeon was transferred to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose doctors released it on Tuesday.
It is not the first pigeon to be wrongly accused of spying in India.
In 2020, Indian officials captured a pink pigeon believed to be a spy from Pakistan. It turned out that the bird belonged to a Pakistani fisherman.
And another pigeon ruffled the feathers of the Indian authorities in 2016. The winged animal was arrested after it was found to be carrying a note threatening Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With Postal wire
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
