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Under Section 25 (I). 
1. In these rules the word “ hunting ” includes tracking for the purpose 
of discovering the lie of wild animals. 
2. The following acts are absolutely prohibited within a reserved forest: — 
(1) Poisoning oi dynamiting rivers and other waters. 
(2) Driving or destroying birds or animals in the snow. 
(o) Poisoning carcasses of animals. 
Under section 25 of the Indian Forest Act, the Deputy Conservator may 
sanction, subject to such conditions as may be necessary, the poisoning of 
carcasses of animals killed by wild dogs in order to destroy the latter. 
(4) Spearing and running deer with dogs. 
(5) Watching in the neighbourhood of water or salt-licks between sunset 
and sunrise to shoot animals other than carnivora resorting to such places. 
(6) The erection of dams, weirs, or fixed traps, the diversion of streams 
for the purpose of catching fish, and the driving of fish. 
3. The following acts are prohibited within a reserved forest except as 
provided below : — 
( 1) The setting of snares or traps except with the written permission of 
the Divisional Forest Officer, 
