New Delhi: parrot accused of cursing at an elderly woman was A arrested by Indian cops who carried out a test to check whether the bird was guilty of bad behavior, a policeman said Police from a village in the western state of Maharashtra were at a loss after Janabai Sakharkar, 75, complained that her neighbor had tutored his caged pet, Hariyal, to say dirty words whenever she passed by his house.
She accused her stepson, who has a property dispute with her, of making a wicked plan with the neighbor. Both of them were asked to appear with the parrot at the police station, local police chief said But the parrot seemed self-conscious with all the attention from the police and kept quiet when confronted by the old lady. "The woman repeated her name to the parrot as its cage was brought near her, but the bird would not say a word. We watched very carefully," the police chief said. nt donartment would release the parrot into the wild