2. Ms. Pushpa Bhatt, learned Additional Advocate General along with Mr. S.C. Dumka, learned A.G.A. for the State.

3. By means of the present criminal writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner seeks issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned First Information Report being F.I.R. No. 221 of 2026, dated 30.05.2026, lodged by respondent no. 3, registered under Sections 3, 5 and 11 of the Uttarakhand Protection of Cow Progeny Act, 2007, at Police Station Bhagwanpur, District Haridwar, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom..

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the impugned F.I.R. has been lodged on the allegation that during patrolling duty, the police received information that the petitioners, along with certain other persons, had allegedly slaughtered cow progeny and were storing and distributing beef at the spot. It is further alleged t