NEW DELHI – India has once again claimed to have taken into custody a“Pakistani spy pigeon” who allegedly had a ring carrying a phone number.
According to NDTV’s report, the pigeon was logged as a “spy” in the policestation records and an investigation is underway.
The police record claimed that the pigeon flew into the house of a villagerin Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Sunday.
A senior police official said that the ring had a phone number written onit. However, apart from the ring, the police could not find anything elseand said they have found nothing unusual.
The village head handed the pigeon to Indian Border Security Force (BSF)who in turn handed the bird to the local police in Hira Nagar PoliceStation.
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India in the past had also accused Pakistan of using pigeons for ‘espionagepurposes’.
In 2016, Indian authorities claimed a pigeon they caught in Pathankotcarried a message stamped in Urdu.
Similarly, in October next year, Indian police officials clipped the wingsof a pigeon they had caught in Bamial village with a similar message toprevent it from ‘escaping’.
