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CHAPTER XVIII OF OFFENCES RELATING TO DOCUMENTSAND TO PROPERTY MARKS · Of property and other marks

Section 482: Punishment for using a false property mark

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Whoever uses 1*** any false property mark shall, unless he proves that he acted without intent to defraud, 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 words “any false trade mark or” omitted by s. 135 and the Sch., ibid. (w.e.f. 25-11-1959).

Now in the BNS

As given in the official comparison tables of the Bureau of Police Research and Development and the Allahabad High Court (the NCRB table has no row for it). Read both texts before relying on it.

IPC 482BNS 345(3)

Questions on this section

1 question in 4 of our papers cite Section 482. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. A person who uses a false property mark is punishable under Section 345(3) BNS unless he proves that:

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