This section covers making or using documents resembling currency- notes or bank-notes in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Making or using documents resembling currency notes or bank notes. (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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 182 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, making or using documents resembling currency- notes or bank-notes was covered in S. 489E*.