law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  26. Acts prohibited in such forests . –
  (1) Any person who -
  a) makes any fresh
  
  clearing prohibited by section 5, or
  b) sets fire to a reserved forest, or, in contravention of any
  
  rules made by the State Government in this behalf, kindles any fire, or leaves
  
  any fire burning, in such manner as to endanger such a forest; or who, in a
  
  reserved forest kindles, keeps or carries any fire except at such seasons as
  
  the Forest-officer may notify in this behalf.
  d) trespasses or
  
  pastures cattle, or permits cattle to trespass;
  e) causes any damage by negligence in felling any tree or
  
  cutting or dragging any timber;
  f) fells, girdles, lops, or burns any tree or strips off the
  
  bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages, the same;
  g) quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal, or collects, subjects
  
  to any manufacturing process, or removes, any forest-produce;
  h) clears or breaks up
  
  any land for cultivation or any other purpose;
  i ) in contravention of any rules made in this
  
  behalf by the State Government hunts, shoots, fishes, poisons water or sets
  
  traps or snares; or
  j) in any area in which the Elephant's Preservation Act, 1879 (6
  
  of 1879), is not in force, kills or catches elephants in contravention of any
  
  rules so made, 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, in addition to such compensation for damage done to the forest as
  
  the convicting Court may direct to be paid.
  (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
  
  prohibit -
  a) any act done by permission in writing of the Forest-officer,
  
  or under any rule made by the State Government; or
  b) the exercise of any right continued under clause (c) of sub-section
  
  (2) of section 15, or created by grant or contract in writing made by or on
  
  behalf of the Government under section 23.
  (3) Whenever fire is caused willfully or by
  
  gross negligence in a reserved forest, the State Government may
  
  (notwithstanding that any penalty has been inflicted under this section )
  
  direct that in such forest or any portion thereof the exercise of all rights of
  
  pasture or to forest-produce shall be suspended for such period as it thinks
  
  fit.