law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  72.  State
  
  Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.  
  
  
  (1) The State Government may invest any Forest-officer
  
  with all or of the following powers, that is to say:- 
  power to enter upon
  
  any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same;
  the powers of a Civil
  
  Court to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and
  
  material objects;
  power to issue a
  
  search-warrant under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898); and
  power to hold an
  
  inquiry into forest-offences, and, in the course of such inquiry, to receive
  
  and record evidence.
  Any evidence recorded
  
  under clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall be admissible in any subsequent trial
  
  before a Magistrate, provided that it has been taken in the presence of the
  
  accused person.