Procedure if cattle be not claimed within a week

(1) If the cattle be not claimed within seven days from the date of their being impounded, the pound-keeper shall remit the fact to the local authority concerned or to such officer as the Director specifies in this behalf. (2) The local authority or the other officer shall thereupon affix in a conspicuous part of its or his office a notice stating— (a) the number and description of the cattle, (b) the place where they were seized, (c) the place where they are impounded, and shall cause proclamation of the same to be made by heat of drum in the village and in the market place nearest to the place of seizure. (3) If the cattle be not claimed within seven days from the date of the notice, they shall be sold by public auction by the local authority or the said officer or any other officer subordinate to him deputed for that purpose, at such place and time and subject to such conditions as the Director, by general or special order, from time to time, directs. Provided that if any such cattle are, in the opinion of the Director, not likely to fetch a fair price if sold as aforesaid, they may be disposed of in such other manner as he thinks fit.