IMRAN Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Ashwani Kumar Srivastava, Advocate, appearing for the applicants and AGA for the State.

(2.) BY means of this application under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short 'the Cr.P.C.'), it is prayed that the court below be directed to release the bullocks in favour of of the applicants, which were seized by the police of P.S. Brahm Puri, Meerut, in Case Crime No. 99 of 2009, under section 3/5A U.P. Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955 (in short 'the Cow Slaughter Act') and section 11 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (in short 'the Animals' Cruelty Act').

(3.) NEXT submission made by learned counsel is that the applicants are carrying on the business of purchasing or selling animals and in present case also the applicants after purchasing the bullocks from Hissar (Haryana) were carrying them for the purpose of selling and they were not carrying the bullock for the purpose of slaughtering. It is also submitted in this context that merely on the basis of carrying or transporting the cow, bull or bullock, it can not be presumed that the same were being carried or transported for slaughtering.