This parrot is no Hercule, after all. He’s only Hira — Hero Hiralal maybe, but certainly no Poirot.
He has been celebrated in the international media — who took their cue from some imaginative reporting in India — for solving the “blind” murder of his mistress in Agra earlier this week. Turns out unfortunately, that the facts of the case are a lot more mundane.
Vijay Sharma, the editor of Hindi daily Swaraj Times, returned home from a wedding with his children late at night on February 20 to find his wife Neelam and the family’s pet dog Tuffy stabbed to death, the house ransacked, and jewellery and cash missing. Their other pet, a parrot, was found alive in his cage, covered with a bedsheet.
On February 26, sections of the media reported that the crime had been solved. And the hero, the reports said, was an unlikely Poirot — the parrot in the cage, who was, by an incredible coincidence, called Hercule.
This detective would apparently start flapping his wings and screeching hysterically whenever Sharma’s nephew Ashutosh was mentioned — a reaction that led the police to investigate Ashutosh, and ultimately establish that he had, along with an accomplice, killed his aunt and the dog. Full story...
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He has been celebrated in the international media — who took their cue from some imaginative reporting in India — for solving the “blind” murder of his mistress in Agra earlier this week. Turns out unfortunately, that the facts of the case are a lot more mundane.
Vijay Sharma, the editor of Hindi daily Swaraj Times, returned home from a wedding with his children late at night on February 20 to find his wife Neelam and the family’s pet dog Tuffy stabbed to death, the house ransacked, and jewellery and cash missing. Their other pet, a parrot, was found alive in his cage, covered with a bedsheet.
On February 26, sections of the media reported that the crime had been solved. And the hero, the reports said, was an unlikely Poirot — the parrot in the cage, who was, by an incredible coincidence, called Hercule.
This detective would apparently start flapping his wings and screeching hysterically whenever Sharma’s nephew Ashutosh was mentioned — a reaction that led the police to investigate Ashutosh, and ultimately establish that he had, along with an accomplice, killed his aunt and the dog. Full story...
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