Any forest officer or police officer who vexatiously or frivolously seizes any property on pretence of seizing property liable to confiscation under this Act, or who vexatiously or frivolously arrests any persons, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
CHAPTER VII PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
Section 55: Punishment of wrongful seizure or arrest
The Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967
How current this text is
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Environment, Forest, Science and Technology Department), with amendments up to Act 15 of 2016 (the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016).
Chapter IIIA (sections 28A to 28G, Preservation of Private Forests) applies only in the Scheduled Areas and is not part of this India Code text; it is printed in the 2012 text of the Act hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, and the instrument that inserted it has not been identified.