Section 179 Earlier IPC 239, 240, 241, 250 etc.
Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
Whoever imports or exports, or sells or delivers to, or buys or receives from, any other person, or otherwise traffics or uses as genuine, any forged or counterfeit coin, stamp, currency-note or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be forged or counterfeit, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten 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
- 178Counterfeiting coin, Government stamps, currency-notes or bank-notesIPC 230, 231
- 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
- 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