# 62 Punishment for wrongful seizure
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 punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.
STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra
Amendment of section 62 of Act 16 of 1927.--In section 62 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), the words “or forfeiture” shall be deleted.
[Vide Maharashtra Act 21 of 2015, s. 14].
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Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 5259
Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 5760
Property when to vest in Government61
Saving of power to release property seized63
Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks64
Power to arrest without warrant65
Power to release on a bond a person arrested
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