Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes
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Summary
Making, using, or delivering any paper that purports to be or closely resembles a currency or bank note is an offence punishable by a fine up to one hundred rupees. If a person whose name appears on such a document, when asked by a police officer, refuses without lawful excuse to give the name and address of who printed or made it, they can be fined up to two hundred rupees. If a name appears on the document used or distributed, it is presumed that that person caused it to be made until proved otherwise.
Example
Priya runs a tea stall and a customer pays with a paper that looks like a 100 rupee note. The person who made or used that paper can be fined up to one hundred rupees. If Priya's name is printed on the paper and she refuses to tell a police officer who printed it, she can be fined up to two hundred rupees, and her name will be presumed to mean she caused it to be made unless she 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 one 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 two 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 that person caused the document to be made.
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