Parrot summoned by cops for mouthing obscenities in Maharashtra

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In a bizarre case, a Rose-ringed Parakeet or Psittacula krameri accused of "hurling obscenities" at an octogenarian woman was summoned 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. The police was at its wit's end after 85-year-old Janabai Sakharkar accused her stepson Suresh of teaching his parrot 'Hariyal', to shower abuses 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 khaki clad policemen and kept mum when his cage was brought near Janabai, to see if it wo