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Section 78: Power of Police officer to unsaddle the animal or unload.

The Maharashtra Police Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 22 of 1951

When a Police officer in good faith suspects that any animal being employed in any work or labour is, by reason of any sore, unfit to be so employed, he may require the person in charge of such animal to unsaddle or unload it for the purpose of ascertaining whether any sore exists and, if any person refuses to do so, may himself unsaddle or unload the animal or may cause the same to be unsaddled or unloaded.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Police Act.
Section78
Marginal notePower of Police officer to unsaddle the animal or unload.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

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