Power to remove obstruction

(1) No person shall encroach on or cause obstruction to an embankment or slope thereof. (2) The Engineer-in-charge Hydraulic Works or any other person authorized by the Government in that behalf may issue an order to the person making encroachment or causing obstruction or having control over any such encroachment or obstruction, to remove or modify the same within a time to be specified in the order. (3) If within the time so specified such person docs- not comply with the order, the Engineer-in-charge Hydraulic Works or any person authorized by him in that behalf may remove or momry sucfi encroachment or obstruction; and if the person to whom the order was issued does not, when called upon, pay the expenses involved in such removal or modification, such expenses shall be recoverable from him as arrears of land-revenue. (4) In removing or modifying the encroachment or obstruction the Engineer-in-charge Hydraulic Works may, if necessary, requisition the help of the Police.