‘Spy pigeon’ caught off Paradip coast to be sent to CFSL
The bird will now be sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Kolkata or Hyderabad after the State Forensic Laboratory failed to elicit any data from the tiny camera and microchip tagged to the leg of the'spy pigeon', which was caught from a fishing boat off the Paradip Coast in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district.
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Paradip: The bird will now be sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Kolkata or Hyderabad after the State Forensic Laboratory failed to elicit any data from the tiny camera and microchip tagged to the leg of the'spy pigeon', which was caught from a fishing boat off the Paradip Coast in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district.
On Friday, Jagatsinghpur SP Rahul PR told media that the pigeon would be sent to the CFSL. "The texts written on the pigeon's wings and the seized devices will be examined at the CFSL," he said.
On Thursday, the bird was transferred from the Paradip Marine Police to the state police's Pigeon and Dog Squad in Cuttack.
The camera and microchip were also sent to the State Forensic Laboratory in Bhubaneswar to determine whether they were intended for spying and where they came from.
The pigeon and dog squad experts were to examine the bird to determine whether it had been trained for spying and its nativity.
The pigeon, which had been perched on a fishing boat in the middle of the sea off the Konark coast in Puri district about 10 days ago, was handed over to the Paradip Marine Police on Wednesday. Some messages in a foreign language were scrawled on its wings.
