Power to remove obstruction or damage to work

Any person incharge of, or employed upon any irrigation work, may remove from the land or buildings belonging thereto or may take into custody without a warrant, and without unnecessary delay take to a Judicial Magistrate or in his absence take to the nearest police station, any person who within his view - (a) willfully damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any irrigation work; (b) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water, in or from any irrigation work so as to endanger, damage or rendered less useful such irrigation work.