Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.

Whoever, with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to cause wrongful gain as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860),--

1. (a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree a mark used by Forest-officers to indicate that such timber or tree is the property of the 1[Government] or of some person, or that it may lawfully be cut or removed by some person; or
2. (b) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on a tree or on timber by or under the authority of a Forest-officer; or
3. (c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary-mark of any forest or waste-land to which the provisions of this Act are applied, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. STATE AMENDMENT Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).-- Section 63.--For the words, "or with fine", substitute the words "or with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees". [Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O.3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).]