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Section 63: Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks

Indian Forest Act 1927State Act of Tripura · Act 1 of 1927

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 Forest-officers to indicate that such timber or tree is the property o Government or of some person, or that it may lawfully be cut or removed some person; or

(b) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on a tree or on timber by under the authority of a Forest-officer; or

(c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary-mark of any forest or waste land to which the provisions of this Act are applied, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or fine, or with both.

Where this provision sits

ActIndian Forest Act 1927
Section63
Marginal notePenalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
JurisdictionState of Tripura
StatusIn force as published by the source

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