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 anticipatory bail application, the applicants seek grant of anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest in connection with FIR dated 10.02.2026, registered as Case Crime/F.I.R. No. 74 of 2026, under Sections 3/5/11 of the Uttarakhand Protection of Cow Progeny Act, 2007, at Police Station Bhagwanpur, District Haridwar.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the impugned F.I.R. has been lodged on the allegation that while on patrolling duty, the police received information regarding certain carcasses of cow progeny lying on the roadside; that, acting upon the said information, the police reached the spot where some local persons allegedly informed them that they had seen the applicant and other co-accused persons disposing of the carcasses in bags. It is f