Persons bound to assist Forest Officer and Police Officer

(1) Every person who exercises any right in a Reserved Forest or who is permitted to take any forest produce from, or to cut and remove timber, or to pasture cattle in, such forest, and every person who is employed by any such person in such forest, and every Village Officer or person in any village contiguous to such forest who is employed by the Government shall be bound to furnish without unnecessary delay to the nearest Forest Officer or Police Officer, any information he may possess respecting the occurrence of a fire in or near such forest, or the commission of,