CHAPTER XII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS

Section 245: Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in ¹[India], any coining tool or instrument, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Footnotes in the official text

1.The words “British India” have successively been subs. by the A. O. 1948, the A. O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., to read as above.

Now in the BNS

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

245. Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint.

BNS 188

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