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

Section 182: Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

(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.

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

Questions on this section

2 questions in 7 of our papers cite Section 182. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. Assertion (A): Where a person is charged under Section 182(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 in respect of a document resembling a currency-note, and the name of another person appears on that document, it may be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the person so named caused the document to be made. Reason (R): Under Section 182(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a person whose name appears on such a document and who, without lawful excuse, refuses to disclose to a police officer on demand the name and address of the person who printed it commits an offence. Choose the correct option.

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