Classification of Offences
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CHAPTER XII - OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS | |||||
| 231 | Counterfeiting, or performing any part of the process of counterfeiting coin. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 232 | Counterfeiting, or performing any part for the process of counterfeiting coin. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 233 | Making, buying or selling instrument for the purpose of counterfeiting Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 234 | Making, buying or selling instrument of the purpose of counterfeiting Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 235 | Possession of instrument or material for the purpose of using the same for counterfeiting coin,
| Imprisonment for 3 years and fine.
| Ditto
| Ditto
| Magistrate of the first class.
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| If Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. | |
| 236 | Abetting, in India, the | The punishment provided for abetting the counterfeiting of such coin within India. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 237 | Import or export of counterfeit coin, knowing the same to be counterfeit. | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 238 | Import or export of counterfeit of Indian coin, knowing the same to be counterfeit. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 239 | Having any counterfeit coin known to be such when it came into possession, and delivering, etc., the same to any person. | Imprisonment for 5 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 240 | Same with respect to Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Court of Session. |
| 241 | Knowingly delivering to another any counterfeit coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be counterfeit. | Imprisonment for 2 years, fine, or 10 times the value of the coin counterfeited, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Any Magistrate. |
| 242 | Possession of counterfeit coin by a person who knew it to be counterfeit when he became | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 243 | Possession of Indian coin by a person who knew it to be counterfeit when he became possessed thereof. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 244 | Person employed in a Mint causing coin to be of a different weight or composition from that fixed by law. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 245 | Unlawfully taking from a Mint any coining instrument. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 246 | Fraudulently diminishing the weight or altering the composition of Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 247 | Fraudulently diminishing the weight or altering the composition of Indian coin. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 248 | Altering appearance of any coin with intent that it shall pass as a coin of a different description. | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 249 | Altering appearance of Indian coin with intent that it shall pass as a coin of a different description. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 250 | Delivery to another of coin possessed with the knowledge that it is altered. | Imprisonment for 5 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 251 | Delivery of Indian coin possessed with the knowledge that it is altered. | Imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 252 | Possession of altered coin by a person who knew it to be altered when he became possessed thereof. | Imprisonment for 3 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 253 | Possession of Indian coin by a person who knew it to be altered when he became possessed thereof. | Imprisonment for 5 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 254 | Delivery to another of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered. | Imprisonment for 2 years or fine, or 10 times the value of the coin. | Ditto | Ditto | Any Magistrate. |
| 255 | Counterfeiting a Government stamp. | Imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Court of Session. |
| 256 | Having possession of an instrument or material for the purpose of counterfeiting a Government stamp. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 257 | Making, buying or selling instrument for the purpose of counterfeiting a Government stamp. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 258 | Sale of counterfeit Government Stamp. | Imprisonment for 7 years and fine. | Cognizable | Non-bailable | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 259 | Having possession of a counterfeit Government stamp. | Ditto | Ditto | Bailable | Ditto. |
| 260 | Using as genuine a Government stamp known to be counterfeit. | Imprisonment for 7 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 261 | Effacing any writing from a substance bearing a Government stamp, or removing from a document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause a loss to Government. | Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Ditto. |
| 262 | Using a Government stamp known to have been before fine, used. | Imprisonment for 2 years or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Any Magistrate. |
| 263 | Erasure of mark denoting that stamps have been used. | Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both. | Ditto | Ditto | Magistrate of the first class. |
| 263 A | Fictitious stamps | Fine of 200 rupees | Ditto | Ditto | Any Magistrate. |
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