The bird, carrying a message written in Chinese, was intercepted in May and locked up in a clinic in Bombay, before being cleared and released on Tuesday by the police.
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In India, a pigeon was exonerated. The bird was suspected of espionage and was detained in a veterinary clinic for eight months before being released on Tuesday January 30. The animal had been intercepted with a “unreadable message” written in Chinese, according to the newspaper Times of India. “The police had opened a procedure for espionage against the bird, but closed the case at the end of their investigation”, says the newspaper. AFP was unable to obtain official confirmation.
The bird was intercepted in May and locked up in a Mumbai clinic, before being cleared and released by police. Arrests of homing pigeons for espionage are not uncommon in India. In 2016, one of them was imprisoned after being intercepted near the Pakistani border, carrying a message threatening Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
