law: Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
  35. Treatment and care of animals. -
  (1) The State Government may, by general or
  
  special order, appoint infirmaries for the treatment and care for animals in
  
  respect of which offences against this Act, have been committees, and may
  
  authorized the detention therein of animal pending its production before a
  
  magistrate.
  (2) The magistrate before whom a prosecution
  
  for an offence against this Act, has been instituted may direct that the animal
  
  concerned shall be treated and cared for in an infirmary, until it is fit to
  
  perform its usual work or is otherwise fit for discharge, or that it shall be
  
  sent to a pinjrapole, , or if the veterinary officer in charge of the area in
  
  which the animal is found or such other veterinary officer as may be authorized
  
  in this behalf by rules made under this Act certificate that it is incurable or
  
  cannot be removed without cruelty, that it shall be destroyed.
  (3) An animal sent for care and treatment to an
  
  infirmary shall not, unless the magistrate directs that it shall be sent to a
  
  pinjraple or that it shall be destroyed, be released from such place except
  
  upon a certificate of its fitness for discharge issued by the veterinary
  
  officer in charge of the area in which the infirmary is situated or such other
  
  veterinary officer as may be authorized in this behalf by rules made under this
  
  Act.
  (4) The cost of transporting the animal to an
  
  infirmary or pinjrapole, and of its maintenance and treatment in an infirmary,
  
  shall be payable by the owner of the animals in accordance with a scale of
  
  rates to be prescribed by the district magistrate, or, in presidency -towns, by
  
  the commissioner of police:
  (5) Any amount payable by an owner of an
  
  animal under subsection (4) may be recovered in the same manner as an arrear of
  
  land revenue.
  (6) If the owner refuses or neglects to remove
  
  the animal within such time as a magistrate may specify, the magistrate may
  
  directed that the animal be sold and that the proceeds of the sale be applied
  
  to the payment of such cost.
  (7) The surplus, if any, of the proceeds of
  
  such sale shall, on application made by the owner within two months from the
  
  date of the sale, be paid to him