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Section 87: Person employed on canal may take offenders into custody

The Goa Irrigation Act, 1973State Act of Goa · Act 18 of 1973

Any person in charge of, or employed in connection with any canal, may remove from the lands or buildings belonging thereto or may take into custody without a warrant, and take forthwith before a Magistrate or to the nearest police station, any person who within his view,—

(1) wilfully damages, obstructs or fouls such canal, or

(2) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water, in or from the canal, or in any river or stream so as to endanger, damage, make dangerous, or render less useful, such canal.

88. Punishment under other laws not barred— .Nothing contained in this Act shall prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for the time being in force for any act or omission made punishable by this Act.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Goa Irrigation Act, 1973
Section87
Marginal notePerson employed on canal may take offenders into custody
JurisdictionState of Goa
StatusIn force as published by the source

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