THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL PETITION No.14948 of 2025

ORDER

1. This Criminal Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking to set- aside the orders dated 08.01.2021 passed in Crl.M.P.No.293 of 2020 in Crime No.958 of 2020, on the file of the learned Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Shadnagar, wherein the interim custody of the cattle (9 She buffaloes, 7 He buffaloes, 16 Bulls and 1 Cow tolling to 33 cattle) was granted to the petitioner without hearing the petitioner herein, who is a Gow Sevak representing Gowshala.

2. Heard Sri G.L.Narasimha Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner as well as Sri Jitender Rao Veeramalla, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent No.1-

State.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner herein is Gow Sevak of Shree Samarth Kamadhenu Gowshala and he was not served with any notice before passing the order by the Trial Court and that interim custody of the cattle ought not to have been granted to the petitioner therein though he claims to be the owner in view of Rule 3 of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Care