‘Spy’ pigeon lands in Hoshiarpur village

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, September 23

A white pigeon with an Urdu inscription on its wings landed in a house in Mukerian sub-division’s Motla village yesterday. The owner of the house handed it over to the police. It was being suspected that it could be a bird being used for spying or sending some coded messages from Pakistan.

Naresh Kumar of Motla village told the police today that the pigeon had landed in his house last night. He picked it up in the morning and spotted something written on its feathers. A police team from Mukerian reached there and found someone who could read Urdu. It was found that the names of days were written on it.

The police are trying to ascertain if it was some kind of coded message. The Army is also being contacted to look for someone who could decipher the ‘code’. The bird was sent for an X-ray to verify if something was hidden inside, but nothing suspicious was found.