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We live in the kind of paranoid and uncertain world where urban birds are suspected of grand political manoeuvring.
An innocent pigeon was accused of being a Chinese spy and held in India for assessment for eight months before finally being freed.
The animal was detained by officers after it was captured in May last year near a port in Mumbai, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
Detectives suspected it was up to no good as it was found with two rings tied to its legs featuring words that appeared to be Chinese. Suspecting espionage, the authorities took it in, before later sending it to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals.
It was in captivity for eight months when it emerged that the innocent birdie was in fact an open-water racing bird from Taiwan which had escaped and flown to India.
Police then approved the bird’s transfer to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where doctors set free the falsely accused avian on Tuesday.
This is the moment the falsely accused pigeon was released.
Pigeon suspected of being Chinese spy released by police after eight months
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This might seem silly to some, but pigeons have been used in spying and combat throughout history. UK forces in the First World War and Second World War used them to deliver messages.
A pigeon called Gustav brought the first news of D-Day back to the UK, after a correspondent wrote a report and attached it to the bird while landing on Sword Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
India has reason to be threatened by the birds as in 2016 another pigeon was detained after it was allegedly found with a note that threatened Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shame, this recent poor fowl just wanted a different life.
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