Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes
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Summary
Making, using, or delivering any document that purports to be, or closely resembles, a currency-note or bank-note can attract a fine up to Rs 300. If a person whose name appears on such a document refuses, without lawful excuse, to tell a police officer who printed or made it, they can be fined up to Rs 600. A name on the document or on related material is presumed, until disproved, to mean that the person caused it to be made.
Example
Rohan runs a small photocopy shop. Police seize a sheet that looks like a currency-note with Rohan's name printed on it. If he used or supplied that document he may be fined up to Rs 300; if he then refuses without lawful excuse to tell the police who printed it he may face an additional fine up to Rs 600. His name will be presumed to show he caused it to be made unless he proves otherwise.
Bare Act
Enacted text(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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