law: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
  42. Penalty for Certain Acts.
  
  (1) Whoever -
  (a) destroys, pulls
  
  down, removes, injures or defaces any pillar, post or stake fixed in the ground
  
  or any notice or other matter put up, inscribed or placed, by or under the
  
  authority of the Board; or
  (b) obstructs any
  
  person acting under the orders or directions of the Board from exercising his
  
  powers and performing his functions under this Act; or
  (c) damages any works or property, belonging to the Board; or
  (d) fails to furnish
  
  to any officer or other employee of the Board any information required by him
  
  for the purpose of this Act; or
  (e) fails to intimate
  
  the occurrence of any accident or other unforeseen act or event under section
  
  31 to the Board and other authorities or agencies as required by that section;
  
  or
  (f) in giving any
  
  information which he is required to give under this Act, knowingly or willfully
  
  makes a statement which is false in any, material particular; or
  (g) for the purpose of
  
  obtaining any consent under section 25 or section 26, knowingly or willfully
  
  makes a statement which is false in any material particular, shall be
  
  punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or
  
  with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.
  (2) Where for the grant of a consent in
  
  pursuance of the provisions of section 25 or section 26 the use of a meter or
  
  gauge or other measure or monitoring device is required and such device is used
  
  for the purposes of those provisions, any person who knowingly or willfully
  
  alters or interferes with that device so as to prevent it from monitoring or
  
  measuring correctly shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
  
  extend to three months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or
  
  with both.