visiting Harihara KSRTC bus stand in order
to circulate counterfeit currency notes. He immediately
secured two panchas and along with his staff went to
Harihara ... received Rs.11,19,000/- worth counterfeit currency
notes of denomination of Rs.500/- from accused No.4 and
he had already circulated
extracted hereunder:
"489B. Using as genuine, forged or counterfeit
currency-notes or bank-notes.--Whoever sells to, or buys
or receives from, any other ... person, or otherwise traffics in
or uses as genuine, any forged or counterfeit currency-note
or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe
case are that, on receiving an
information over phone that counterfeit Indian currency
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notes ... spot along with his staff and panchas and
seized about 632 counterfeit currency notes of Rs.500/-
denomination, worth Rs.3,16,000/-.
4. Accused
Sections 255 to 260 of the
IPC read as follows:
"255. Counterfeiting Government stamp.--
Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of
the process ... counterfeiting, any stamp issued by
Government for the purpose of revenue, shall be punished
with 312[imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of
either description
received a credible information
that two persons are indulged in trafficking of counterfeit
currency notes near the private bus stand, Bhadravathi, in front ... Accused No.1 was found in possession of 09
counterfeit currency notes of Rs.100/- denomination with
Sl.No. 22 F 962136 and accused
received a credible information
that two persons are indulged in trafficking of counterfeit
currency notes near the private bus stand, Bhadravathi, in front ... Accused No.1 was found in possession of 09
counterfeit currency notes of Rs.100/- denomination with
Sl.No. 22 F 962136 and accused
received a credible information
that two persons are indulged in trafficking of counterfeit
currency notes near the private bus stand, Bhadravathi, in front ... Accused No.1 was found in possession of 09
counterfeit currency notes of Rs.100/- denomination with
Sl.No. 22 F 962136 and accused
Baleno Car bearing registration No.AP-
21-CC-7854 were exchanging counterfeit notes. Immediately,
the complainant along with his staff went to the spot ... that the said persons were carrying eight bundles of
Rs.500/- denomination counterfeit notes. The said persons
informed the complainant that they had brought
follows:
"6. Outcome.--This analysis reveals that the legislative
embargo against counterfeiting envelops and takes within its
sweep "currency notes ... legislature partly inasmuch as the
court makes it lawful to counterfeit notes other than Indian
currency notes. The manifest purpose of the provision is that
cans
used by the complainant. It was sealed with a cap having
counterfeit property mark resembling to Castrol Oil Company.
This conduct of the accused ... under section 483 and 484 of IPC
are concerned, it speaks of counterfeiting a property mark used
by another. It is mandatory on the part
