Office Notes, reports, orders SL. or proceedings Date COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS No or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures WPMS 3294/ 2025 Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J. Mr. Nikhil Bhatt, Advocate, i/b Mr.

Dushyant Mainali, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Suyash Pant, Standing Counsel, for the State.

(2) Petitioners run a pet boarding facility at Dehradun. Their pet boarding facility has been directed to be sealed by the District Magistrate, vide order dated 13.11.2025, which is impugned in this writ petition. Impugned order has been passed by invoking power under Section 29 of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, which reads as under:

“29. Power of court to deprive person convicted of ownership of animal.―(1) If the owner of any animal is found guilty of any offence under this Act, the court, upon his conviction thereof, may, if it thinks fit, in addition to any other punishment, make an order that the animal with respect to which the offence was committed shall be forfeited to Government and may, further, make such order as to the disposal of the animal as it thinks fit under the circumstances.

(2) No order under sub-section (1) shall be made unless it is shown b