CHAPTER VII Penalties and Procedure.

Section 52: Penalty for counterfeiting marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks

The Telangana Forest Act, 1967

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Environment, Forests, Science and Technology Department): the Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by G.O.Ms.No.22, E.F.S&T (For.I) Department, dated 13.05.2015, with amendments up to Act No.35 of 1997.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

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 Andhra Pradesh Forest Act hosted by the Telangana Forest Department, and the Telangana Preservation of Private Forest Rules, 1978, made under section 28-G for the scheduled areas, were adopted in Telangana by G.O.Ms.No.22 of 13.05.2015; the instrument that inserted the chapter has not been identified.

Whoever, with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to cause wrongful gain as defined in the Indian Penal Code-

(a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree, a mark used by any forest officer to indicate that such timber or tree is the property of the Central or State Government or of some person, or that it may lawfully be cut or removed by some person, or

(b) unlawfully affixes to any timber or standing tree, a mark used by any forest officer, or

(c) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on any timber or standing tree by or under the authority of any forest officer, or

(d) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary mark of any forest or any land to which any provisions of this Act apply, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.