Dr. Mark Clinton:

The law as is stands was introduced in 2004 under supplementary provisions to road development, section 14A subclause (4) (i) to (v), inclusive. One can preserve it. One can renovate or restore it. One can excavate, dig, plough or otherwise disturb the ground. The crux is that one can "demolish or remove it wholly or in part or to disfigure, deface, alter, or in any [way] injure or interfere with it". That was the godlike power given under the amendment in the Act of 2004.