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

Section 483: Counterfeiting a property mark used by another

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Whoever counterfeits any 1*** property mark used by any other person shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words “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 correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

483. Counterfeiting a property mark used by another.BNS 347 (1)

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