Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter XII: Of Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps
Section 236: Abetting in India the counterfeiting out of India of coin
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
In plain words
A person in India who abets counterfeiting of coin outside India is punished as if they had abetted it within India.
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Official text
Whoever, being within [India], abets the counterfeiting of coin out of [India], shall be punished in the same manner as if he abetted the counterfeiting of such coin within [India].
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 236
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