Bns 2023 Section 182 : Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes :

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
Section 182 :
Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes :
(See section 489E of IPC 1860)
Section : 182 (1)
Classification of Offence:
Offence : Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or banknotes.
Punishment : Fine of 300 rupees.
Cognizable or Non-cognizable : Non-cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable : Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable : Any Magistrate.
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Section : 182 (2)
Classification of Offence:
Offence : On refusal to disclose the name and address of the printer.
Punishment : Fine of 600 rupees.
Cognizable or Non-cognizable : Non-cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable : Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable : Any Magistrate.
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(1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees.
(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to six hundred rupees.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person caused the document to be made.

Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC 1860)
Section 489E :
1.[Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes:
(See section 182 of BNS 2023)
Classification of Offence:
Offence: Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or banknotes.
Punishment :Fine of 100 rupees
Cognizable or Non-cognizable :Non-cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable :Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable :Any Magistrate.
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Offence: On refusal to disclose the name and address of the printer.
Punishment :Fine of 100 rupees
Cognizable or Non-cognizable :Non-cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable :Bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable :Any Magistrate.
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(1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under subsection (1) refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may , until the contrary is proved, be presumed that person caused the document to be made.]
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1. Ins. by Act 6 of 1943, s. 2.

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