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IPC Section 489D - Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting currency
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IPC Section 489D deals with making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting currency.
Full official legal text
489D. Making or possessing instruments or materials for forging or counterfeiting currency
notes or bank-notes.--Whoever makes, or performs any part of the process of making, or buys o r sells
or disposes of, or has in his possession, any machinery, instrument o r material for the purpose of being
used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for forging or counterfeiting
any currency-note or bank-note, shall be punished with 2[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of
either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.]
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