Section 158. Power to remove obstruction or damage to work.

An Assistant Executive Engineer Incharge of any irrigation work, may take any person into custody without a warrant, and shall without unnecessary delay take him to a judicial Magistrate, or in his absence, to the nearest police station, if such person in his opinion–– (a) wilfully damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any irrigation work ; (b) without proper authority, interferes with the supply or flow of water, in or from any irrigation work so as to endanger, damage or render such irrigation work less useful ; or (c) obstructs tapping source of water in any water source.