Legal Provisions of Section 254 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Delivery of coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered:
This section penalises delivery of a coin as genuine which, when first possessed, the deliverer did not know to be altered. It states that whoever, either delivers to another person as genuine or as a coin of different description from what it really is, or attempts to induce another person to receive as genuine or as a different coin from what it really is, any coin in respect to which he has knowledge that any such operation as mentioned in section 246, 247, 248 or 249 of the Code has been performed, but in respect of which he did not have knowledge, when he took the same into his possession, that such operation had been performed, shall be punished with simple or rigorous imprisonment for a term extending up to two years, or with fine extending up to ten times the value of the coin for which the altered coin is passed, or attempted to be passed.
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Delivery of a coin as genuine or as a coin of a different description than the real one must be established under the section. If such is not the case then attempt to induce another person to receive as genuine or as a different coin than the real one has to be proved. In either case, knowledge on the part of the accused that an operation as mentioned in any of the sections 246 to 249 of the Code has been performed must be proved. It must also be established that he had no knowledge about such operation at the time he took such coin into his possession.
The offence under this section is cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable, and is triable by any magistrate.