The Indian Forest Act, 1927
CHAPTER II: OF RESERVED FORESTS
Section 7: Inquiry By Forest Settlement-Officer
Bare Act
The Forest Settlement - officer shall take down in writing all statements made under section 6, and shall at some convenient place inquire into all claims duly preferred under that section, and the existence of any rights mentioned in section 4 or section 5 and not claimed under section 6 so far as the same may be ascertainable from the records of Government and the evidence of any persons likely to be acquainted with the same.
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The person in charge of settling matters in the forest, known as the **Forest Set
Explanation using examples
Suppose there is a village named Sundarban in a forest region of India. The villagers have been using a part of the forest for farming and gathering mi
