Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine or as a coin of a different description from what it is, or attempts to induce any person to receive as genuine or as a different coin from what it is, any coin in respect of which he knows that any such operation as that mentioned in section 246, 247, 248 or 249,2008 or 2482008 has been performed, but in respect of which he did not, at the time when he took it into his possession, know that such operation has been performed, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine to an amount which may extend to 10 times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed or attempted to be passed.
Section history
Section 254
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 254 — Original text to 30 November 2008superseded
Section 254 — 30 November 2008 to 1 January 2020rewritten by the Revised Edition
Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine or as a coin of a different description from what it is, or attempts to induce any person to receive as genuine or as a different coin from what it is, any coin in respect of which he knows that any such operation as that mentioned in section 246 or 248 has been performed, but in respect of which he did not, at the time when he took it into his possession, know that such operation had been performed, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years, or with fine to an amount which may extend to 10 times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed or attempted to be passed.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 254]
Section 254 — From 1 January 2020 (current)repealed by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
[Repealed by Act 15 of 2019 wef 01/01/2020]