BILASPUR: A goat has been booked, along with its owner, for trespass and damaging and destroying property of a district magistrate in Janakpur block of district Korea in north Chhattisgarh, about 250 km from here.

The police arrested the goat, whose name is not known, and its owner Abdul Hassan on the complaint of district magistrate Hemant Ratre's gardener.

The accused, Abdul Hasan, a resident of Janakpur, had been ignoring warnings given to him continuously for over a week and was eventually detained and charged under sections 447 (trespass) and 427 (damaging and destroying other’s property) IPC on Monday.

Ratre’s gardener tried in vain to stop Hasan from doing so. The gardener then informed police about it. Police contacted Hasan and asked him to stop letting the goat loose in the magistrate’s garden. Hasan, however, did not pay any heed to the warning from police as well, said Paikra. Eventually Ratre’s gardener lodged a complaint against Hasan with police against Hasan. Hasan was detained on Monday and his goat confiscated, stated Paikra.

Speaking to TOI station in-charge Janakpur RS Paikra said that Hasan had been letting his goat loose into the residential garden of magistrate SE Ratre since more than a week.

Paikra added that the animal has been seized and would be produced in the court during hearing of the case merely as an evidence and for identification purpose and not to face any criminal charges.

Paikra further said that it is the man and owner of the animal who is at fault and as such how can a case be registered against an animal.

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