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Section 21: Compensation for legal seizure or detention and release of cattle

The Kerala Cattle Trespass Act, 1961State Act of Kerala · Act 26 of 1961

(1) If the seizure or detention be adjudged, illegal the Magistrate shall award to the complainant, for the loss caused by the seizure .or detention, 495 reasonable compensation not exceeding one hundred rupees, to be paid by the person who made the seizwe or detained the cattle, together with all fines paid and expenses incurred by the complainant in procuring the release ol the cattle

(2) Ifthe cattic have not heen released, the Magistrate shall, besides awarding such compensation, urder their release and ducect that the fines and eapenses leviable under this Act shall be paid by the person who made the seizure or detained the cattle.

22. Recovery of compensation—The compensation, fines and expenses mentioned in section 21 may be recovered in the manner provided for the recovery of fines under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.

CHAPTER VI PENALTIES 23, Penalty for forcibly opposing the seizure of catile or rescung the same.— Whoever forcibly opposes the scizure of cattle liable to be seized under this Act, and whoever rescues the same after seizure, either from a pound or from any person taking or about to take them to a pound, such person being near at hand and acting under the powers conferred by this Act, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be pumished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both,

Where this provision sits

ActThe Kerala Cattle Trespass Act, 1961
Section21
Marginal noteCompensation for legal seizure or detention and release of cattle
JurisdictionState of Kerala
StatusIn force as published by the source

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