After eight months in detention, Indian police cleared a pigeon suspected to be a Chinese spy.
The bird was captured in Mumbai in May with Chinese-looking words on rings tied to its legs, raising espionage suspicions.
The pigeon was sent to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals. However, investigations revealed it was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan that had escaped and reached India.
With police permission, the bird was transferred to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where it was released on Tuesday. This incident mirrors a 2020 case where police in Indian-controlled Kashmir released a Pakistani fisherman’s pigeon after determining it was not a spy.
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