Indian Penal Code 1860
Section 244 :
Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law:
(See section 187 of BNS 2023)
Classification of Offence:
Offence: Person employed in a Mint causing coin to be of a different weight or composition from that fixed by law.
Punishment :Imprisonment for 7 years and fine.
Cognizable or Non-cognizable :Cognizable
Bailable or Non-bailable :Non-bailable
Compoundable or Non-compoundable : Non-compoundable
By Which Court Triable : Magistrate of the first class.
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Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in 1.[India], does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from the mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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1. The words ‘British India” have successively been subs. by the A. O. 1948, the A. O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., to read as above.
