Stage-carriages Act, 1861 Section 9 - Bare Act |
| State | Central Government |
| Year | 1861 |
| Section Title | Penalty for Ill-treating Animals |
Any person who shall cruelly beat, ill-treat, override, abuse, torture or cause or procure to be cruelly beaten, ill-treated, overdriven, abused or tortured, any horse employed in drawing or harnessed to any stage-carriage, or who shall harness to or drive in any stage-carriage any horse which from sickness, age, wounds or other cause is unfit to be driven in such stage-carriage, shall for every such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees.