BNS 182 — Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

182. (1)  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.
(2)  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.
(3)  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.
Effacing  writing  from  substance  bearing  Government  stamp,  or
removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause
loss to Government.

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