BNS 347 — Counterfeiting a property mark.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

347.(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.
Making  or  possession  of  any  instrument  for  counterfeiting  a
property mark.

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