IPC Section 254 — Delivery of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered

Summary

If a person gives someone else a coin that has been altered, or tries to get someone to accept it as genuine or as a different type of coin, and that person knows the coin has been altered but did not know it was altered when they first got it, they can be punished. The punishment may be imprisonment for up to two years, or a fine of up to ten times the value the altered coin was passed or attempted to be passed for, or both.

Official Text

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 sections 246, 247, 248 or 249 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 of either description for a term which may extend to two years or with fine to an amount which may extend to ten times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed, or attempted to be passed.

Sections referred to

• IPC §246 — Fraudulently or dishonestly diminishing weight or altering composition of coin
• IPC §247 — Fraudulently or dishonestly diminishing weight or altering composition of Indian coin
• IPC §248 — Altering appearance of coin with intent that it shall pass as coin of different description

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• BNS §179 — Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit coin, Government stamp, currency-notes or bank-notes