Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter XII: Of Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps
Section 244: Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to offences and proceedings from before that date.
In plain words
A person employed in a lawful mint in India who does, or fails to do, anything intending that coins issued will differ in weight or composition from what the law fixes is punishable with imprisonment of either description for up to seven years, and a fine.
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Official text
Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in [India], does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by law shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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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 244
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