BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 187 — Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law.
Replaces IPC Section 244.
Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in India, does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from that 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.
Nearby sections
- 184 Using Government stamp known to have been before used.
- 185 Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been used.
- 186 Prohibition of fictitious stamps.
- 188 Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint.
- 189 Unlawful assembly.
- 190 Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object.
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