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Section 72: State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers

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

(1) The State Government may invest any Forest-officer with all or of the following powers, that is to say:-

(a) power to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same;

(b) the powers of a Civil Court to compel the attendance of witnesses and production of documents and material objects;

(c) power to issue a search-warrant under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898); and

(d) power to hold an inquiry into forest-offences, and, in the course of such inquiry, to receive and record evidence.

(2) Any evidence recorded under clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall be admissible in subsequent trial before a Magistrate, provided that it has been taken in the presence of accused person.

Where this provision sits

ActIndian Forest Act 1927
Section72
Marginal noteState Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers
JurisdictionState of Tripura
StatusIn force as published by the source

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