Whoever counterfeits or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting coin, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section history
Section 231 — Counterfeiting coin
As in force on 2 January 2011.
Timeline 3 versions
- 30 March 1987 Enacted
- 2 January 2011 You are here
- 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
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Explanation.—A person commits this offence, who, intending to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practised, causes a genuine coin to appear like a different coin.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 231]