CHAPTER X OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN, CURRENCY-NOTES, BANK-NOTES, AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS

Section 179: Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

notes.—Whoever imports or exports, or 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, 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.

Corresponding IPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

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237. Import or export of counterfeit coin. 238. Import or export of counterfeits of the Indian coin. 239. Delivery of coin, possessed with knowledge that it is counterfeit. 240. Delivery of Indian coin, possessed with knowledge that it is counterfeit. 241. Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be counterfeit. 250. Delivery of coin, possessed with knowledge that it is altered. 251. Delivery of Indian coin, possessed with knowledge that it is altered. 254. Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered. 258. Sale of counterfeit Government stamp. 260. Using as genuine a Government stamp known to be counterfeit. 489B. Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes.

Questions on this section

1 question in 8 of our papers cite Section 179.

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