law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  33.  Penalties
  
  for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under
  
  section 32.  Ā 
  (1) Any person who commits any of the
  
  following offences, namely:-
  a) fells, girdles, lops, taps or burns any tree reserved under
  
  section 30, or strips of the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages, any
  
  such tree;
  b) contrary to any prohibition under section 30, quarries any
  
  stone, or burns any lime or charcoal or collects, subjects to any manufacturing
  
  process, or removes any forest-produce;
  c) contrary to any prohibition under section 30, breaks up or
  
  clears for cultivation or any other purpose any land in any protected forest;
  sets fire to such
  
  forest, or kindles a fire without taking all reasonable precautions to prevent
  
  its spreading to any tree reserved under section 30, whether standing fallen or
  
  felled, or to say closed portion of such forest;
  e) leaves burning any fire kindled by him in the vicinity of any
  
  such tree or closed portion;
  f) fells any tree or drags any timber so as to damage any tree
  
  reserved as aforesaid;
  g) permits cattle to
  
  damage any such tree;
  h) infringes any rules made under section 32. 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.
  (2) Whenever fire is caused willfully or by
  
  gross negligence in a protected 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 any right of pasture or to
  
  forest-produce shall be suspended for such period as it thinks fit.