Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
Chapter 10: Offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes and Government stamps
Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending, or buys or sells or disposes of, or has in his possession, any machinery, die, or instrument or material for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for forging or counterfeiting any coin, stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, currency-note or bank-note, 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
- 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
- 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