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BNS Section 182: Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

Section 182 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 deals with making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes. It replaces IPC 489E of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Under the BNSS First Schedule, it depends on the sub-section: 182(1) is non-cognizable and bailable; 182(2) is non-cognizable and bailable.

Bail, cognizability and punishment

SectionOffencePunishmentCognizableBailableTriable by
182(1)Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes.Fine of 300 rupees.Non-cognizableBailableAny Magistrate
182(2)On refusal to disclose the name and address of the printer.Fine of 600 rupees.Non-cognizableBailableAny Magistrate

Source: BNSS, 2023, First Schedule, Part I.

Text of BNS Section 182

182. (1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees.

(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police officer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to six hundred rupees.

(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that the person caused the document to be made.

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