(5)No order of confiscation under sub-section (3) of any machinery, arms, tools, boats, cattle, vehicle, ropes, chains or any other article (other than timber or forest produce seized) shall be made if any person referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (4) proves to the satisfaction of authorised officer that any such machinery, arms, tools, boats, cattle, vehicle, ropes, chains or any other article were used without his knowledge or connivance or as the case may be, without the knowledge or connivance of his servant or agent and that all reasonable and necessary precautions had been taken against use of objects aforesaid for commission of forest offence.]
