NEW DELHI – India police said on Monday it will have x-rayed a pigeon itsuspects was spying for Pakistan to rule out the possibility of any codedmessages.
According to *Timeslink>ofIndialink>,link>*policein Ajnala town of Amritsar district will have the bird examined toascertain it does not have a tiny spying object embedded to its body.
The pigeon, the report said, was found near the check-post of BorderSecurity Force (BSF) close to the border with Pakistan. It was later handedover to police for a probe.
The report went on to add that the conveying of coded messages through thebird is not a rare occurrence on the Punjab side of the border.
This is not the first time India has suspected pigeons of being used fromthe other side of the border for spying purposes.
In February 2017, the country claimed to have caught a “spy pigeon” it saidcame from Pakistan. The authorities later claimed it escaped to Pakistandue to police negligence.
Similarly, in May 2016, Indian authorities claimed that a pigeon theycaught in Pathankot carried a message stamped in Urdu. Later that year, inOctober, police officials clipped the wings of a pigeon they caught inBamial village with a similar message to prevent it from “escaping”.
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