Maharashtra Police Act 1951
Section 90 :
Power to establish cattle-pounds and appoint pound-keepers :
(1) 1.[In any area 2.[[other than 5.[Brihan Mumbai]] under the charge of a Commissioner], the Commissioner 3.[***] shall, from time to time, appoint such places as he thinks fit to be public pounds, and may appoint to be keepers of such pounds Police officers of such rank as may be approved by the State Government.
(2) Every pound-keeper so appointed shall, in the performance of his duties’ be subject to the direction and control of the Commissioner, 4.[**].
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1. substituted for the words ‘In Greater Bombay’ by Bombay 56 of 1959, Section 3, Schedule.
2. inserted by Maharashtra 18 of 1974, Sections 5 and 6.
3. The words and figures ‘and in other areas to which the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of this section and sections 91, 92, 93 and 94 of this Act, any officer appointed in that behalf by the State Government’ were deleted by Bombay 20 of 1953, Section 9.
4. The words ‘or such officer as aforesaid’ were deleted, by Bombay 20 of 1953, Section 9.
5. Substituted by Maharashtra act no 27 of 2023, Section 5 for Greater Bombay (w.e.f 4-1-2023).
