Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
(1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees.
(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to six hundred rupees.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person caused the document to be made.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 179Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 239, 240
- 180Possession of forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 242, 243
- 181Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 233, 234
- 183Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to GovernmentIPC 261
- 184Using Government stamp known to have been before usedIPC 262
- 185Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been usedIPC 263