Section 254. Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered
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Act
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section number
254
Section reader
Indian Penal Code, 1860
255. Counterfeiting Government stamp
Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting, any stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, shall be punished with 104[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Explanation- A person commits this offence who counterfeits by causing a genuine stamp of one denomination to appear like a genuine stamp of a different denomination.
