Parrot summonsed to police station after being accused of hurling obscenities at elderly lady

A parrot accused of hurling obscenities at an octogenarian woman in India was summonsed to a police station at Rajura in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district after a complaint against its owner that he had allegedly tutored his caged pet to do so.



85-year-old Janabai Sakharkar accused her stepson Suresh of teaching his parrot 'Hariyal', to shower abuse at her whenever she passed by his house. In order to verify the agitated woman's complaint, the police called all the three involved, including Janabai, her stepson Suresh and Hariyal the parrot to the police station.

However, the parrot seemed to have became conscious of the khaki-clad policmen and remained silent when his cage was moved near Janabai to see if it would hurl any obscenities at her. "There is a dispute over land and property between the woman and her stepson.


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"We watched the parrot carefully but it did not utter a word at the police station after being confronted by the complainant," Police Inspector P S Dongre said. Although Hariyal didn't show any alleged penchant to abuse the woman, police decided to hand the bird over to forest department officials after taking into account the harassed mental condition of the elderly lady.