Chapter III Chapter III

(1) The cultivator or occupier of any land, or any person who has acquired a right for the cultivation of the crop or produce on any land, or the vendee or mortgagee of such crop or produce or any part thereof, may seize, or cause to be seized, any cattle trespassing on such land, and doing damage thereto or to any crop or produce thereon, and send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours to the pound established for the area in which the land is situate. (2) All officers of Police shall, when required, aid in preventing— (a) resistance to such seizures, and (b) rescues from persons making such seizures.

Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure grounds, plantations wherein common grazing grounds are available, canals, drainage works, tanks, embankments, and the like and officers of Police, officers employed by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions and such other officers as the Director may empower in this behalf, may seize, or cause to be seized, any cattle doing damage to such roads, grounds, plantations, canals, drainage works, tanks, embankments and the like or the sides or slopes of such roads, canals, drainage works, tanks or embankments or found straying thereon, and shall send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours, to the nearest pound.

(1) For every head of cattle impounded as aforesaid the pound-keeper shall levy a fine in accordance with the scale for the time being prescribed by the Director in this behalf by notification in the Gazette. Different scales may be prescribed for different local areas and for different kinds of cattle. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), when it appears to the Director that in any local area cattle are habitually allowed to trespass on land and damage crops or other produce thereon, he may, by notification in the Gazette, direct that for every head of cattle of any kind specified therein which may be seized within such local area and impounded as aforesaid, such amount of fine as may be specified by him in the said notification, not exceeding double the fine prescribed under sub-section (1), shall be levied. (3) All fines levied under this section shall be credited to the fund of the local authority or where there is no Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council or panchayat, in such manner as the Government may, from time to time, direct. (4) A list of the fines and of the rates of charge for feeding and watering cattle shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place on, or near to, every pound.