Enumerate the offences relating to Coin and Governments Stamps

Question: Enumerate the offences relating to Coin and Governments Stamps.

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Answer

Chapter XII of the IPC deals with offences relating to coins and government stamps. Sections 230-254 deal with coins and sections 255-263A with government stamps. The offences relating to coins can be divided into three classes. They are:

1. Counterfeiting;
2. Criminal acts of mint employees;
3. Alteration of the coin.

The offences relating to coin are counterfeiting coins, making or selling or possessing instrument for counterfeiting coins or Indian coins, importing or exporting of counterfeit coin, delivery of coin pos­sessed with the knowledge that it is counterfeit, diminishing the weight or altering the composition of any coin, possessing altered coin and altering the appearance of any coin to pass it off as a different coin.

Under Section 235 of the Code, the possession of instruments and materials capable of counterfeiting coins must be with the intention of counterfeiting coins; mere possession is not an offence unless it is accompanied by the intention of counterfeiting coins.

The offences relating to Government stamps are possession of or making or selling an instrument for counterfeiting a stamp, sale of the counterfeit stamp, possession of counterfeit stamp, effacing any writ­ing from any substance bearing Government stamp to cause loss to Government, using stamp known to have been before used, erasure of mark denoting that a stamp has been used or making, altering or dealing in or selling or using for postal purpose, any fictitious stamp, or making or possessing any instrument for manufacturing fictitious stamps.

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