Reportedly, the stringent stories about the spy pigeons’ entry into the country began more than one decade ago. The news of the wafting birds has been going on since the year 2010. However, on all occasions, the reality remained fully typical. It engages the authorities concerned with more or less speculative conceptions.
If anything, these observations tell us exist as a tad bit cautionary tale of what happens actually. When a spy pigeon reportedly signs on a new region and secure enough publicity through its arrival. The country takes the matter seriously and handles the probe within the legal jurisdiction. Rather, it puts up the cases with the people concerns.
There have been many cases where these pigeons, originating from either side, end up straying across the border. In the year 2010, a pigeon was grabbed into possession due to concerns over espionage. Again, in the year 2013, Indian security personnel located a dead falcon equipped with a miniature camera. Still again, in the year 2015, Indian authorities confiscated a pigeon under the suspicion that it was operated by Pakistan for espionage. They got its X-ray to ascertain whether the bird was a spy camera, transmitter, or concealed chip.
In 2016, India’s BSF officers imprisoned a pigeon in Pathankot, Punjab, after getting at it holding a note in Urdu threatening our PM reportedly. In 2020, Indian authorities set free a pigeon captured in Kashmir and belonged to a Pakistani fisherman on the confirmation that the pigeon was not a spy.
A suspected Chinese spy pigeon was finally released by Indian authorities into the wild after eight months in detention. The pigeon was captured by the Mumbai police in May near a port last year. It was found with two rings on its legs and a message that came out to be written in the Chinese language.
Investigations found that the pigeon was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan that had lost its way and accidentally ended up in our country by failing to find its way. The pigeon was then sent to Mumbai’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital.
Clarification on its origins as a racing bird, it was handed over to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and subsequently. Pigeon racing goes as a popular sport in the pastoral areas along the border, end up straying across the border. Stamps, paint, and rings on the birds’ feet as tags are used as a common practice. China launched reportedly a spy bird drone to intensify govt surveillance in the year 2018.