ahmedabad gujarat high court frowned upon a cattle pound for not taking care of animals and for being obstinate to put up meaningless legal fight against owner of animals despite the fact that most of the animals died in keptivity jsutice j b pardiwala slapped a penalty of rs 50000 on kalol panjrapol which did not return 705 goats and sheep to their owner despite court orders and kept on challenging court verdict unsuccessfully finally it was revealed that only 16 animals survived and rest died due to viral infection as claimed by the panjarapol authority juma habib was transporting 705 animals to ahmedabad from north gujarat in june last year animal rights activists and kalol police intercepted his vehicles and slapped charges on him for causing cruelty to animals by ferrying them in huge numbers a local court gave custody of the animals to local panjarapol habib went to a magisterial court seeking custody of the animals and the court asked the panjarapol to hand over the animals to him on certain condition the panjarapol office bearers did not hand over the animals to habib and questioned the magistrates order before a sessions court unsuccessfully this brought the panjarapol to the hc in march this year during the hearing habib complained that the panjarapol did not follow court orders obstinately kept on dragging him in courts and did not take proper care of his animals out of 705 only 16 animals survived he even questioned the procedure when the panjarapol said that the animals died due to disease and proper postmortem reports were also prepared justice pardiwala was not satisfied with the panjarapols behaviour and imposed fine of rs 50000 for abusing the process of law and to return 16 animals within two days the hc has permitted the owner to move the lower court for demanding compensation for lost animals