Dr. B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.

1. The issue involved in the Criminal revision is:-

whether a person under mere claim of owner or representing so called owner, either to kill or to sell for slaughter, entitled to interim custody of cows and bulls seized from him, when those are allegedly possessed for slaughter, from the national importance of cows, which are the substitute to mother and God and being the sacred national wealth?

2. It was against the order dated 03.02.2017 in Crl. M.P. No.160 of 2017 in Crime No.206 of 2016 of Nalgonda Rural Police Station, passed by the learned Judicial First Class Magistrate-cum-Special Mobile Magistrate, Nalgonda; dismissing the application for interim custody of 63 cows and 2 bulls that were seized under cover of panchanama while they were grazing in the outskirts of Kanchanapally Village, that were secured by the petitioner and other accused to offer them to be killed by slaughter for distribution of cow meat for the Muslim festival of Bakrid and with that aim the accused persons secured accused No.2 for purchasing cows and bulls from