India: Union Cabinet Clears Amendments To Section 68 Of The Indian Forest Act 1927

India: Union Cabinet Clears Amendments To Section 68 Of The Indian Forest Act 1927   1. The Union Cabinet today approved an amendment to Section 68 of the Indian Forest Act 1927.   2. Section 68 currently reads as follows:   Section 68 - Power to compound offences   (1) The [State Government] may, by notification in the [Official Gazette], empower a Forest officer:   to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any forest-offence, other than an...

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