IPC · Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 489E IPC

Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

Offence

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

Punishment

shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
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.
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.

Punishment summary

  • Fine: one hundred rupees.

FAQ — Section 489E IPC

Section 489E of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) deals with “Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes”. This page explains the offence (if any), punishment, and links to Vaksera petition formats.

shall be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees. 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. Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged

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