BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 188 — Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint.
Replaces IPC Section 245.
Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in India, any coining tool or instrument, 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
- 185 Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been used.
- 186 Prohibition of fictitious stamps.
- 187 Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law.
- 189 Unlawful assembly.
- 190 Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object.
- 191 Rioting.
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