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Any Forest-officer or Police-officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes any property on pretence of seizing property liable to confiscation under this Act shall be punish- able with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine hich may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both. Penalty for coun- terfeiting or defac- ing marks on trees and tim- ber and for alter- ing ourd-. ary 1arks.