Duties of village officials.

Every village headman, village accountant, village watchmen or other village official by whatever name called, shall forthwith inform the nearest police station or the nearest Highway Authority, whenever he becomes aware that any survey mark or any boundary mark of any highway or any mark showing the building or control line determined in respect of a highway has been destroyed, damaged, removed, displaced or otherwise tampered with, or that any damage to any highway or encroachment on any highway has been made.