Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
(BNS)
Chapter 10: OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN, CURRENCY NOTES, BANK NOTES, AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS
- Section 178
Counterfeiting coin, Government stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes
- Section 179
Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
- Section 180
Possession of forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
- Section 181
Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes
- Section 182
Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes
- Section 183
Effacing writing from substance bearing Government stamp, or removing from document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government
- Section 184
Using Government stamp known to have been before used
- Section 185
Erasure of mark denoting that stamp has been used
- Section 186
Prohibition of fictitious stamps
- Section 187
Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law
- Section 188
Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint
