law: Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
  13. Destruction of suffering animals. -
  (1) Where the owner of an animal is convicted
  
  of an offence under section 11, it shall be lawful for the court, if the court
  
  is satisfied that it would be cruel to keep the animal alive, to direct that
  
  the animal be destroyed and to assign the animal to any suitable person for
  
  that purpose, and the person toe whom such animal is so assigned shall, as soon
  
  as possible, destroy such animal or cause such animal to be destroyed in his
  
  presence without unnecessary suffering, and any reasonable expense incurred in
  
  destroying the animal may be ordered by the court to be recovered from the
  
  owner as if it were a fine:
  Provided that unless the owner assents thereto,
  
  no order shall be made under this section except upon the evidence of a
  
  veterinary officer in charge of the area.
  (2) When any magistrate, commissioner of
  
  police or district superintendent of police has reason to believe that an
  
  offence under section 11 has been committed in respect of any animal, he may
  
  direct the immediate destruction of the animal, if in his opinion, it would be
  
  cruel to keep the animal alive.
  (3) Any police officer above the rank of a constable
  
  or any person authorized by the State Government in this behalf who finds nay
  
  animal so diseased or so severely injured or in such a physical condition that
  
  in his opinion it cannot be removed without cruelty, may, if the owner is
  
  absent or refuses his consent to the destruction of the animal, forthwith
  
  summon the veterinary officer in charge of the area in which the animal is
  
  found, and if the veterinary officer certifies that the animal is mortally
  
  injured or so severely injured or in such a physical condition that it would be
  
  cruel to injured or in such a physical condition that it would be cruel to keep
  
  it alive, the police officer or the person authorized, as the case may be, may,
  
  after obtaining orders form a magistrate destroy the animal injured or cause it
  
  to be destroyed.
  (4) No appeal shall lie from any order of a
  
  magistrate for the destruction of an animal.