Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter XIII: Of Offences Relating to Weights and Measures
Section 264: Fraudulent use of false instrument for weighing
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024.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
Fraudulently using a weighing instrument one knows is false is punishable with imprisonment of either description for up to one year, or fine, or both.
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Official text
Whoever fraudulently uses any instrument for weighing which he knows to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
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.