Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inserted by Act No.17 of 1976. [Act No. 1 of 1967] 33 chain, boat or vehicle in committing the offence and that each of them had taken all reasonable and necessary precautions against such use. (2-D) Any forest officer not below the rank of a Conservator of Forests empowered by the Government in this behalf by notification, may within thirty days from the date of the order of confiscation by the authorised officer under sub-section (2-A) either suo motu or on application call for and examine the record of that order and may make such inquiry or cause such inquiry to be made and pass such orders as he may think fit: Provided that no order, prejudicial to any person, shall be passed without giving him an opportunity of being heard. (2-E) Any person aggrieved by an order passed under sub-section (2-A) or sub-section (2-D) may, within thirty days from the date of communication to him of such order, appeal to the District Court having jurisdiction over the area in which the property has been seized; and the District Court shall after giving an opportunity to the parties to be heard, pass such order as it may think fit and the order of the District Court so passed shall be final.] (3) Any forest officer not below the rank of a Forester, who or whose subordinate has seized any tools, ropes, chains, boats, vehicles or cattle under sub-section (1) 17[and where he makes a report of such seizure to the Magistrate under sub-section (2)] may release the same on the execution by the owner thereof a bond for the production of the property so released, if and when so required before the magistrate.