PPC Section 489-E | Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes:

PPC Section 489-E

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

(1)	Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purposes 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 device, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine or with both.

(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 imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

(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 person caused the document to be made.

Offence	Cognizance	Summons	Bail	Punishment	Triable
Making or using documents resembling currency notes or bank notes	May arrest without warrant.	Warrant ..	Not bailable	Imprisonment of either description for 1 year, or fine or both.	Magistrate of the first class