Chapter 10

section_number: 178
section_name: Counterfeiting coin, government stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes.
explanation: Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of 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.
Explanation:For the purposes of this Chapter,the expression “bank-note” means a promissory note or engagement for the payment of money to bearer on demand issued by any person carrying on the business of banking in any part of the world, or issued by or under the authority of any State or Sovereign Power, and intended to be used as equivalent to, or as a substitute for money;“coin” shall have the same meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Coinage Act, 2011 and includes metal used for the time being as money and is stamped and issued by or under the authority of any State or Sovereign Power intended to be so used;a person commits the offence of “counterfeiting Government stamp” who counterfeits by causing a genuine stamp of one denomination to appear like a genuine stamp of a different denomination;a person commits the offence of counterfeiting coin who intending to practice deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practiced, causes a genuine coin to appear like a different coin; and (5) the offence of “counterfeiting coin” includes diminishing the weight or alteration of the composition, or alteration of the appearance of the coin.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Court of Session.


section_number: 179
section_name: Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank notes.
explanation: Whoever 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 issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, 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.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Court of Session.


section_number: 180
section_name: Possession of forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes.
explanation: Whoever has in his possession any forged or counterfeit coin, stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, currency-note or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be forged or counterfeit and intending to use the same as genuine or that it may be used as genuine, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 7 years, or fine, or both.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Court of Session.


section_number: 181
section_name: Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency notes or bank-notes.
explanation: 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, 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.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Court of Session.


section_number: 182
section_name: Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes.
explanation: Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees. If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to six hundred rupees. Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person caused the document to be made.

section_number: 183
section_name: Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government.
explanation: Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, removes or effaces from any substance, bearing any stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, any writing or document for which such stamp has been used, or removes from any writing or document a stamp which has been used for such writing or document, in order that such stamp may be used for a different writing or document, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both.CognizableBailableTriable by Magistrate of the first class.


section_number: 184
section_name: Using Government stamp known to have been before used.
explanation: 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.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 2 years, or fine, or both.CognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.


section_number: 185
section_name: Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been used.
explanation: Whoever, fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to Government, erases or removes from a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, any mark, put or impressed upon such stamp for the purpose of denoting that the same has been used, or knowingly has in his possession or sells or disposes of any such stamp from which such mark has been erased or removed, or sells or disposes of any such stamp which he knows to have been used, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both.CognizableBailableTriable by Magistrate of the first class.


section_number: 186
section_name: Prohibition of fictitious stamps.
explanation: BNSSClassificationFine of 200 rupees.CognizableBailableTriable by Any Magistrate.


section_number: 187
section_name: Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law.
explanation: 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.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 7 years and fine.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Magistrate of the first class.


section_number: 188
section_name: Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint.
explanation: Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in India, any coining tool or instrument, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
BNSSClassificationImprisonment for 7 years and fine.CognizableNon-bailableTriable by Magistrate of the first class.