Section 62: Punishment for wrongful seizure.

Any Forest-officer or Police-officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes any property on pretence of seizing property liable to confiscation under this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

STATE AMENDMENTS Maharashtra Amendment of section 62 of Act 16 of 1927.—In section 62 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), the words “or forfeiture” shall be deleted. [Vide Maharashtra Act 21 of 2015, s. 14].