IPC 489E — Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Statutory text

[489E. Making  or using documents   resembling   currency-notes or bank-notes.--(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 one 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 two 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 that person caused the document to be made.]

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