Order

05/03/2024 Instant criminal appeal has been filed by the appellants under Section 374(2) Cr.P.C. against the judgment dated 05.03.2014 passed by learned Special Judge, SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) & Addl. Sessions Judge, Pratapgarh, in Sessions Case No.40/2010 by which the learned Judge convicted and sentenced the appellants as under :

Offence U/s 5, 6 R/w 8 of Bovine Act : One year’s R.I. and a fine of Rs.500/-, in default of payment of fine, further undergo fifteen days’ S.I.

Offence U/s 9 of Bovine Act : Six months’ R.I. and a fine of Rs.200/-, in default of payment of fine, further undergo seven days’ S.I.

Offence 11 of Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act : Fine of Rs.50/-, in default of payment of fine, further undergo three days’

S.I.

All the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

Brief facts of the case are that on 25.05.2008 complainant Ramesh Chandra Sharma gave a written report to SHO Police Station Suhagpura, stating therein that on 25.05.2008 at about 7.00 a.m. Kailash Gurjar informed him that on Gautameshwar Road in Panawala Ghata a Truck bearing Number CH-6677 is standing, in which 25 calves were loaded out of which one calf was lying dead in the truck. In the sa