# 244 Person employed in mint causing coin to be of different weight or composition from that fixed by law
Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in 1 [India], does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
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1. The words 'British India" have successively been subs. by the A. O. 1948, the A. O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., to read as above.
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS
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Delivery of Indian coin, possessed with knowledge that it is counterfeit241
Delivery of coin as genuine, which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be counterfeit242
Possession of counterfeit coin by person who knew it to be counterfeit when he became possessed thereof243
Possession of Indian coin by person who knew it to be counterfeit when he became possessed thereof245
Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint246
Fraudulently or dishonestly diminishing weight or altering composition of coin247
Fraudulently or dishonestly diminishing weight or altering composition of Indian coin
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