Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending, or buys, sells or disposes of, any die or instrument for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for the purpose of counterfeiting current coin, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall be also liable to fine.
Section history
Section 234
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 234 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 234 — 30 November 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending, or buys, sells or disposes of, any die or instrument for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for the purpose of counterfeiting current coin, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 234]
Section 234 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]