Section 184 Earlier IPC 262
Using Government stamp known to have been before used
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, uses for any purpose a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, which he knows to have been before used, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
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
- 181Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 233, 234
- 182Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 489E
- 183Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to GovernmentIPC 261
- 185Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been usedIPC 263
- 186Prohibition of fictitious stampsIPC 263A
- 187Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by lawIPC 244