I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-ban-condemned/article4233888.ece