IPC 254 — Delivery of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

Whoever  delivers  to any other person as genuine or as a coin of a different description from what it is, or attempts to induce any person to receive  as  genuine,  or as a different coin from what it is, any coin in  respect of which he knows that any such operation as that mentioned in sections 246, 247, 248 or
249 has been performed, but in respect of  which  he  did  not, at the time when he took it into his possession, know that such operation had been performed, shall  be   punished   with   imprisonment  of  either description for a term which may extend to two

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