Making instruments for counterfeiting prohibits manufacture or possession and attracts severe imprisonment and fine under law. Making, mending, buying, selling, disposing of, or possessing machinery, dies, instruments or materials intended for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government revenue stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes is an offence when the actor knows or has reason to believe of the intended counterfeiting; the penalty includes imprisonment (including life) or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and a fine.
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Making instruments for counterfeiting prohibits manufacture or possession and attracts severe imprisonment and fine under law.
Making, mending, buying, selling, disposing of, or possessing machinery, dies, instruments or materials intended for forging or counterfeiting coin, Government revenue stamps, currency-notes or bank-notes is an offence when the actor knows or has reason to believe of the intended counterfeiting; the penalty includes imprisonment (including life) or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and a fine.
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