BNS182
BNS Section 182: Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes
Punishment
- (1) punished with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees
- (2) punished with fine which may extend to six hundred rupees
Depends on which sub-section applies. Copied verbatim from the text below.
Arrest, bail & court
- (1) Non-cognizable · Bailable · Any Magistrate (Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank- notes)
- (2) Non-cognizable · Bailable · Any Magistrate (On refusal to disclose the name and address of the printer)
From the BNSS, 2023, First Schedule (machine-extracted; check the Schedule for anything consequential).
Verbatim · BNS182. Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes.—(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.
Cite as: Section 182, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023)