Counterfeiting a property mark
Chapter 18: Offences relating to documents and property marks
(1) Whoever counterfeits any property mark used by any other person shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
(2) Whoever counterfeits any property mark used by a public servant, or any mark used by a public servant to denote that any property has been manufactured by a particular person or at a particular time or place, or that the property is of a particular quality or has passed through a particular office, or that it is entitled to any exemption, or uses as genuine any such mark knowing the same to be counterfeit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three 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
- 345Property markIPC 479, 481
- 346Tampering with property mark with intent to cause injuryIPC 489
- 348Making or possession of any instrument for counterfeiting a property markIPC 485
- 349Selling goods marked with a counterfeit property markIPC 486
- 350Making a false mark upon any receptacle containing goodsIPC 487, 488