UP Police Regs 190Chapter 15 · Special Offences
Section 190 · Paragraph 181. General instructions in case of theft of cattle
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The following instructions will apply to all districts:
(1) The officer in charge of a police station shall promptly send a report of cattle theft, along with a descriptive list of the stolen animals, to all neighboring police stations in his own and other districts. He shall inform the pound keepers, if any, within his police station's jurisdiction of the straying report and post a notice on the notice board of his police station.
(2) The cattle in the pound should be carefully compared with the descriptive list of stolen animals. Careful investigation should be conducted to determine whether animals are being kept by persons other than neighboring farmers or by persons living far from the pound.
(3) Constables should be provided with a list of straying reports received from their roaming areas during the year, and they should ascertain from village watchmen and residents whether stray animals have been recovered and, if so, under what circumstances. Village watchmen should be questioned on these points when they visit the police station.
(4) When village watchmen visit the police station, the officer in charge of the station should have the reports of cattle theft or straying made to the station read out and explain them.
(5) The officer in charge of each police station should have complete knowledge of the names and addresses of cattle thieves and should try to find out whether the cattle are taken in any particular direction, whether there are any villages in his area where the majority of the residents sympathize with cattle thieves, and whether there are any areas, such as post forests and river khadars, where stolen cattle can be temporarily detained. In each police station in Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Moradabad, Agra, Farrukhabad, Badaun, and Shahjahanpur districts, the Station House Officer will maintain a list, along with the Village Crime Book, showing the names of the Thangadars and the villages in which they reside. No further details are required on these lists, as all these details will be contained in the Village Crime Book. If a village is so teeming with Thangadars that specifying some names would be irrelevant (for example, in the case of some Gujjar villages), simply listing the village name in the list will suffice. The list will serve as a directory to the Village Crime Book and will give the Station House Officer and inspecting officers a quick glimpse of the extent of cattle theft.
The Superintendent of Police in other districts may, at their discretion, extend this order to all or any of the police stations in their districts.
(6) Rewards should be freely given not only to those who arrest cattle thieves or recover stolen cattle, but also to those who provide useful information about the habitat, practices, and routes of cattle thieves and their associates. Village watchmen should be wisely encouraged to assist in this matter.
(7) All crimes related to cattle falling under sections 411, 412, and 414 of the Indian Penal Code shall be registered and sent for trial by the districts and police stations within whose boundaries the theft occurred. The crimes shall be registered there as theft.
Note: The Superintendent of Police of Uttar Pradesh shall not request the police of other states to comply with this rule.
(8) Station House Officers and Circle Inspectors of Uttar Pradesh, whose divisions border the Punjab Police Division, shall arrange to meet once a month with the Station House Officers and Circle Inspectors of the Punjab Division to discuss border problems with special reference to cattle theft and criminal activities. At each meeting, they shall prepare a brief record of the matters discussed and the proposed action and forward it to the Superintendent for orders.
(9) The Superintendents of Police of the following districts in Uttar Pradesh should inform the Superintendents of Police of the following districts in Punjab about the tribes registered under the Criminal Tribes Act in their districts. They should also ask the Superintendents of Police of the respective Punjab districts to provide such information:
Punjab - Gurgaon, Karnal, Rohtak, Ambala
Uttar Pradesh - Dehradun, Meerut, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Bulandshahr, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar
(1) The officer in charge of a police station shall promptly send a report of cattle theft, along with a descriptive list of the stolen animals, to all neighboring police stations in his own and other districts. He shall inform the pound keepers, if any, within his police station's jurisdiction of the straying report and post a notice on the notice board of his police station.
(2) The cattle in the pound should be carefully compared with the descriptive list of stolen animals. Careful investigation should be conducted to determine whether animals are being kept by persons other than neighboring farmers or by persons living far from the pound.
(3) Constables should be provided with a list of straying reports received from their roaming areas during the year, and they should ascertain from village watchmen and residents whether stray animals have been recovered and, if so, under what circumstances. Village watchmen should be questioned on these points when they visit the police station.
(4) When village watchmen visit the police station, the officer in charge of the station should have the reports of cattle theft or straying made to the station read out and explain them.
(5) The officer in charge of each police station should have complete knowledge of the names and addresses of cattle thieves and should try to find out whether the cattle are taken in any particular direction, whether there are any villages in his area where the majority of the residents sympathize with cattle thieves, and whether there are any areas, such as post forests and river khadars, where stolen cattle can be temporarily detained. In each police station in Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Moradabad, Agra, Farrukhabad, Badaun, and Shahjahanpur districts, the Station House Officer will maintain a list, along with the Village Crime Book, showing the names of the Thangadars and the villages in which they reside. No further details are required on these lists, as all these details will be contained in the Village Crime Book. If a village is so teeming with Thangadars that specifying some names would be irrelevant (for example, in the case of some Gujjar villages), simply listing the village name in the list will suffice. The list will serve as a directory to the Village Crime Book and will give the Station House Officer and inspecting officers a quick glimpse of the extent of cattle theft.
The Superintendent of Police in other districts may, at their discretion, extend this order to all or any of the police stations in their districts.
(6) Rewards should be freely given not only to those who arrest cattle thieves or recover stolen cattle, but also to those who provide useful information about the habitat, practices, and routes of cattle thieves and their associates. Village watchmen should be wisely encouraged to assist in this matter.
(7) All crimes related to cattle falling under sections 411, 412, and 414 of the Indian Penal Code shall be registered and sent for trial by the districts and police stations within whose boundaries the theft occurred. The crimes shall be registered there as theft.
Note: The Superintendent of Police of Uttar Pradesh shall not request the police of other states to comply with this rule.
(8) Station House Officers and Circle Inspectors of Uttar Pradesh, whose divisions border the Punjab Police Division, shall arrange to meet once a month with the Station House Officers and Circle Inspectors of the Punjab Division to discuss border problems with special reference to cattle theft and criminal activities. At each meeting, they shall prepare a brief record of the matters discussed and the proposed action and forward it to the Superintendent for orders.
(9) The Superintendents of Police of the following districts in Uttar Pradesh should inform the Superintendents of Police of the following districts in Punjab about the tribes registered under the Criminal Tribes Act in their districts. They should also ask the Superintendents of Police of the respective Punjab districts to provide such information:
Punjab - Gurgaon, Karnal, Rohtak, Ambala
Uttar Pradesh - Dehradun, Meerut, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Bulandshahr, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar
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