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CHAPTER II GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

Section 28: “Counterfeit”

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

A person is said to “counterfeit” who causes one thing to resemble another thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practised.

1[Explanation 1.—It is not essential to counterfeiting that the imitation should be exact.

Explanation 2.—When a person causes one thing to resemble another thing, and the resemblance is such that a person might be deceived thereby, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the person so causing the one thing to resemble the other thing intended by means of that resemblance to practise deception or knew it to be likely that deception would thereby be practised.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 1 of 1889, s. 9, for the Explanation.

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

28. “Counterfeit”.BNS 2(4)

Questions on this section

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  1. 1. Under Explanation 2 to Section 2(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, when a person causes one thing to resemble another and the resemblance is such that a person might be deceived thereby, what follows?

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