law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  63. 
  
  Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for
  
  altering boundary marks . –
  Whoever, with intent to cause damage or injury
  
  to the public or to any person, or to cause wrongful gain as defined in the
  
  Indian Penal Code -
  a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or
  
  standing tree a mark used by Forest-officers to indicate that such timber or
  
  tree is the property of the Government or of some person, or that it may
  
  lawfully be cut or removed by some person; or
  b) alters, defaces or obliterates any such
  
  mark placed on a tree or on timber by or under the authority of a
  
  Forest-officer; or
  c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any
  
  boundary-mark of any forest or waste-land to which the provisions of this Act
  
  are applied, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend
  
  to two years, or with fine, or with both.