This section covers person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law. Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in India, does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
What was the old IPC code for Section 187 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law was covered in S. 244.