(1)Any person who -(a)contravenes the provisions of clause (b) of sub section (1) of section 7 :(b)sets fire to a forest notified to be reserved under section 4 or kindles in such forest any fire or leaves any fire burning in such manner as to endanger such forest ;(c)in a reserved forest -(i)kindles, keeps or carries any fire, except at such season and subject to such conditions as the Divisional Forest Officer may, from time to time, specify in this behalf ;(ii)trespasses, pastures cattle or allows cattle to trespass;(iii)causes any damage, either wilfully or negligently in felling or cutting any tree or dragging any timber ;(iv)fells, girdles, lops, taps or burns any tree or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages the same ;(v)quarries stones, burns lime or charcoal ;(vi)collects or subjects to any manufacturing process, any forest produce ;(vii)clears or breaks up or ploughs any land for cultivation or for any other purpose ;(viii)hunts, shoots, fishes, poisons water or sets traps or snares ;(ix)damages, alters or removes any wall, ditch embankment, fence, hedge, or railing ; or(x)removes any forest produce ;(d)abets any of the acts specified in clauses (a), (b) and (c), shall, in addition to such compensation for damages caused to the forest as the court may direct to be paid, be punishable(i)in every case where any of the acts aforesaid relates to sandalwood or red sanderswood with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which shall not exceed one year and with fine which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees ;(ii)in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or with both.
