Section 30. Penalty for illegal distraint by landlord, and for illegal removal of produce.

(1) Any landlord of a holding who distrains or attempts to distrain the produce of the holding, or prevents or attempts to prevent, otherwise than in accordance with this Act, any person from reaping, gathering, storing, removing or otherwise dealing with any produce of the holding, and, where a notice in respect of the produce of a holding has been served under section 27 and is in force, any person who, knowing or having reason to believe that the notice is in force, removes, attempts to remove or abets the removal of the produce, except for any of the purposes mentioned in section 26, shall, on the application of either landlord or tenant, be liable under the order of a Revenue-officer to fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. (2) Nothing in this section, and, except as provided in section 546 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, no proceeding under this section, shall affect the right of any person to recover compensation in a civil suit.