law: 2. Central Government empowered to remove or destroy obstruction in fairway.
  Whenever, in  any fairway leading to any port in 2  [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956,  were comprised in Part A States and Part C States], any vessel is sunk, stranded or abandoned, or any  fishing-stake, timber or other thing is placed or left, 5  [the Central Government] may, if in its opinion such  thing is, or is likely to become, an obstruction or danger to navigation,
  (a) cause such thing or any part thereof to be removed; or
  (b) if such thing is of such a description or so situate that, 6  [in the opinion of the Central  Government], it is not worth removing, cause the same or any part thereof to be destroyed.