Section 9
Members of authorities, etc., to be public servants.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of forest land.
Every member of the authorities referred to
in Chapter IV and every other officer exercising any of the powers conferred by or under this Act shall be
deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).