Maharashtra Police Act 1951
Section 89 :
Police Officer may take charge of stray cattle :
1.[In any areas outside the charge of a Commissioner] a Police Officer may take charge of any animal falling under the provisions of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, 2.[ 3.[*** or,] as the case may be, under the Hyderabad Cattle Trespass Act,] which may be found straying in a street, and may take or send the same to the nearest pound, and the owner and other persons concerned shall thereon become subject to the provisions of the 4.[relevant Act.]
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1. Substituted for the words ‘In any area outside Greater Bombay’ by Bombay 56 of 1959, Section 3, Schedule.
2. Inserted by Bombay 34 of 1959, Section 29(1).
3. The words ‘or of that Act as in force in the Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay’ were omitted by the Maharashtra Adaptation of laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960.
4. Substituted for the words ‘said Act’ by Bombay 34 of 1959, Section 29(2).
