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Spy Pigeon from China released by Indian state officials

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 Insight Post A pigeon released after it was finally cleared of being a suspected Chinese spy, has spent eight months in Indian police custody.  The bird was caught at a port in the financial capital Mumbai with “messages written in a Chinese-like script” on its wings, the  Times of India  newspaper  reported . “Initially, the police had registered a case of spying against the bird, but after completing their inquiry, they dropped the charge,” the report added. The unnamed bird was held under lock and key at a city hospital while police carried out an investigation. Statement by PETA said; That probe took an “astonishing eight months”, the India office of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Similar situation had been faced by the state of India in past too,  When border security forces captured a pigeon close to Pakistan-India border in 2016, according to Indian officials the pigeon was carrying a threatening message to PM Narendra Modi.