11. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 49, and shall take effect as section 49A. of the Principal enactment:
| 49A, Any person who threatens, intimidates or obstructs or in any way interferes with a forest officer, police officer or any other officer authorized to act in that behalf in the exercise, performance and discharge of his powers, duties and functions under this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or to both such fine and imprisonment: |
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