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Any Forest Officer or Police Officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes for seizure wrongful or arrest any property on pretence of seizing property liable to confiscation under this Act, or who vexatiously and unnecessarily arrests any person shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees Power to prevent commission of offence