Section 187 Earlier IPC 244
Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in India, does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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
- 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
- 184Using Government stamp known to have been before usedIPC 262
- 185Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been usedIPC 263
- 186Prohibition of fictitious stampsIPC 263A
- 188Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mintIPC 245