J&K Police hand over ‘suspected’ pigeon to wildlife department

SRINAGAR: J&K Police person handed implicit to the wildlife section a pigeon examined Saturday for carrying coded markings, arsenic they recovered thing suspicious astir it.On Jan 10, a 13-year-old lad from Kharah colony successful the Akhnoor assemblage of Jammu, adjacent to the International Border (IB), spotted the pigeon and caught it aft noticing antithetic stamped markings connected its feathers.

On person inspection, the vertebrate was recovered wearing 2 coded rings connected its legs.Locals said the ringing connected the pigeon’s near limb was reddish successful colour and had immoderate substance written successful Urdu on with what appeared to beryllium a telephone number. The ringing connected the close limb bore the sanction ‘Rizwan’ on with a numerical code. The pigeon besides had a stamped marking, speechmaking ‘Nowshera Club’.The boy’s household instantly informed the section constabulary station astatine Pallanwala, aft which the pigeon was taken into custody for verification.A elder constabulary serviceman said the markings and codes were examined and thing suspicious was found. “We judge the pigeon belongs to a section club. Clubs usually people pigeons successful this manner,” the serviceman said, adding that they handed implicit the pigeon to the wildlife section connected Sunday.In August 2025, BSF unit had intercepted a pigeon successful the RS Pura sector, astir 40 km from Jammu, aft a enactment tied to its claw carried a connection successful Urdu that read, “Kashmir is ours; the clip has come, it volition come.” The pigeon was besides carrying a missive threatening an IED blast.Such benignant of enactment is not antithetic successful borderline areas of Jammu. Usually balloons, flags and pigeons with assorted messages person been captured adjacent the IB implicit the past respective years.