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CHAPTER XIII

Section 266: Being in possession of false weight or measure

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Whoever is in possession of any instrument for weighing, or of any weight, or of any measure of length or capacity, which he knows to be false, 1*** intending that the same may be fraudulently used, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The word “and” omitted by Act 42 of 1953, s. 4 and the Third Sch.

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

266. Being in possession of false weight or measure.Not carried into the new law

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