A parrot has been detained by police in India after an elderly woman filed a complaint against it for making abusive comments. 
 
 The parrot, named as Hariyal, was reportedly trained for two years by its owner, Suresh Sakharkar, to abuse his stepmother, Janabai. 
 
 The family are living separately because of a property dispute, according to reports in India. 
 
 "I am being harassed for the last two years," Janabai told Zee News. "On seeing me, the parrot uses bad language and foul words. 
 
 "That is why I have complained thrice in the last two years. Police called me, Suresh and the parrot to the police station. Police should investigate and seize the parrot." 
 
 Police Inspector P S Dongre told reporters: "There is a dispute over land and property between the woman and her stepson. We watched the parrot carefully but it did not utter a word at the police station after being confronted by the complainant." 
 
 The police did not press charges against the parrot, but handed it over to the state's forestry department. 

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 The woman accused her stepson of teaching the parrot to shower abuses at her. Representational Image 
 
 Pune: In a bizarre case, a parrot accused of "hurling obscenities" at an octogenarian woman was summoned to a police station at Rajura in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district today 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 policmen and kept mum when his cage was brought 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. 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 told reporters. 
 
 
 
 Although Hariyal never showed any alleged penchant to abuse the woman, the police decided to hand it over to forest department officials, after taking into account the harassed mental condition of the aged woman. 
 
 Story First Published: August 18, 2015 15:24 IST
– It seems that a parrot in India may have grounds for a lawsuit after police detained it without evidence for allegedly "hurling obscenities" at an 85-year-old woman. Over the past two years, the woman claims she has been subjected to "bad language and foul words" from the parrot named Hariyal every time she walks by her stepson's house, according to the Telegraph. She says her stepson trained the bird to insult her. Police called all three—woman, stepson, and parrot—into the station Tuesday, but NDTV reports the parrot appeared to know when to keep its mouth shut. "We watched the parrot carefully, but it did not utter a word at the police station," one inspector says. Regardless, the parrot was put into custody of the forestry department because of the woman's "harassed mental condition." The Telegraph points out the woman and her stepson are in an ongoing property dispute.