10. Replacement of section 7 of the principal enactment

Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:—

7. (1) Any person who in a Reserved Forest—

trespasses or causes trespass or remains therein;

permits cattle to trespass or cuts grass or any other plant or feed cattle with grass or plants;

fells a tree or cuts or drags timber, causes damage by negligence or intentionally strips off bark or leaves from any tree or girdles, lops, taps or burns a tree or does any act to damage or destroy any tree;

blocks any waterways within such forest or obtains water from such waterway by means of a pipe line or any other devices or pollutes or poisons water or pollutes the forest environment by dumping and disposing any garbage in the forest;

transports, removes, uproots or destroys any plant or any part of it or damages any plant or any part of any plant or sells or exposes for sale or exhibits or offers for sale any plant found within such forest;

kills or attempts to kill, removes, transports, shoots, or attempts to shoot, catches, snares or sets traps to catch, molests or disturbs any bird, animal or reptile or sells or exposes for sale or offers for sale any part of any such bird, animal or reptile or takes or destroys eggs of any such bird, animal or reptile or destroys or removes the dwelling of any such bird, animal or reptile;

quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal, collects any forest produce or subjects them to any process of manufacture, extracts coral or molluse shells digs or mines for plumbago, gems or other form of minerals, collects or removes or transports sand, soil or stones and uses or possesses explosives for such purpose;

kindles or keeps any fire or leaves any fire burning or causes any fire or allows any fire to spread or carries any fire;

fells, cuts, saws, converts, alters, collects, removes or transports any tree or timber or collects, removes, transports or has in his possession, custody or control of any forest produce;

erects a scaffolding or constructs a saw pit;

clears or breaks up soil or digs any land for cultivation or prepares any land for building purposes or cultivates any land already cleared or erects a hut or any building whether permanent or temporary or occupies any building so erected;

constructs any road, alters or damages any road already constructed, uses any road so constructed, damages, alters, disfigures or removes any wall, ditch, embankment, fence, hurdle, gutter, hedge, name board, sign board or any other boundary mark, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not less than rupees ten thousand and not exceeding rupees one hundred thousand or to both such imprisonment and fine. In addition to the above, the Court may award compensation for any damage caused to the Reserved Forest.

Any person who aids or abets in the commission of any offence specified in subsection (1), or causes any such offence to be committed shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to the same punishment as is specified for the commission of that offence.”.