Or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to be rescued, is charged with, or liable to be apprehended for an offence punishable with death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;

Or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued is liable, under the sentence of a court of justice or by virtue of a commutation of such a sentence, to transportation for life, or to transportation, penal servitude, or imprisonment for a term of ten years or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine;

Or, if the person to be apprehended or rescued, or attempted to be rescued, is under sentence of death, shall be punished with transportation for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXXVA*. Whoever escapes or attempts to escape from any custody in which he is lawfully detained for failing, urder the Code of Criminal Procedure, to furnish security for good behaviour, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

CCXXVI. Whoever, having been lawfully transported, Unlawful return from transportation. returns from such transportation the term of such transportation not having expired and his punishment not having been remitted, shall be punished with transportation for life, and shall also be liable to fine, and to be imprisoned with rigorous imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years before he is so transported.

of remission of punishment.

CCXXVII. Whoever, having accepted any conditional Violation of condition remission of punishment, knowingly violates any condition on which such remission was granted, shall be punished with the punishment to which he was originally sentenced, if he has already suffered no part of that punishment, and if he has suffered any part of that punishment, then with so much of that punishment as he has not already suffered.

• See Act XXVII, of 1870.

Intentional insult or

interruption to a

CCXXVIII. Whoever intentionally offers any insult, or

public servant sit. causes any interruption to any public servant, while such ting in any stage of public servant is sitting in any stage of a judicial proceeding, a judicial proceed. shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

ing.

Personation of a juror

or assessor.

Coin defined.

Queen's coin.

Counterfeiting coin.

CCXXIX. Whoever by personation or otherwise, shall intentionally cause, or knowingly suffer himself to be returned, empanelled, or sworn as a juryman or assessor in any case in which he knows that he is not entitled by law to be so returned, empanelled, sworn, or, knowing himself to have been so returned, empanelled or sworn contrary to law, shall voluntarily serve on such jury or as such assessor, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

CHAPTER XII.

• OF OFFENCES RELATING TO COIN AND GOVERNMENT STAMPS. CCXXX.* Coin is metal used for the time being as money, and stamped and issued by the authority of some State or Sovereign Power in order to be so used.

Coin stamped and issued by the authority of the Queen, or by the authority of the Government of India, or of the Government of any presidency or of any Government in the Queen's dominions, is the Queen's coin.

(a) Cowries are not coin.

Illustrations.

(b) Lumps of unstamped copper, though used as money, are not coin. (c) Medals are not coins, inasmuch as they are not intended to be used as money.

(d) The coin denominated as the Company's rupee is the Queen's coin.

CCXXXI. Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting coin, shall be punisbed with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. Explanation.-A person commits this offence, who, intend

ing to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that deception will thereby be practised, causes a genuine coin to appear like a different coin.

Queen's coin.

CCXXXII. Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs Counterfeiting any part of the process of counterfeiting, the Queen's coin, shall be punished with transportation for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXXXIII. Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending, or buys, sells, or disposes of, any die or instrument, for the purpose of being used, or knowing, or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for the purpose of counterfeiting coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.

the

Making or selling in

strument for coun

terfeitiug coin.

strument for coun

coin.

COXXXIV. Whoever makes or mends, or performs any Making or selling inpart of the process of making or mending, or buys, sells, or. terfeiting Queen's disposes of, any die or instrument, for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used, for the purpose of counterfeiting the Queen's coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. "

CCXXXV. Whoever is in possession of any instrument or material, for the purpose of using the same for counterfeiting coin, or knowing or having reason to believe that the same is intended to be used for that purpose, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the coin to be counterfeited is the Queen's coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXXXVI. Whoever, being within British India, abets the counterfeiting of coin out of British India, shall be punished in the same manner as if he abetted the counterfeiting of such coin within British India.

Possession of instru

ment or material for the purpose of using the same for counterfeiting coin.

Abetting in India the counterfeiting of

coin out of India.

Import or export of counterfeit coin.

Import or export of counterfeits of the Queen's coin.

Delivery to another

of coin possessed

CCXXXVII. Whoever imports into British India or exports therefrom, any counterfeit coin, knowing or having reason to believe that the same is counterfeit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXXXVIII. Whoever imports into British India, or exports therefrom, any counterfeit coin, which he knows, or has reason to believe to be a counterfeit of the Queen's coin, shall be punished with transportation for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXXXIX. Whoever, having any counterfeit coin with the knowledge which at the time when he became possessed of it he knew that it is coun- to be counterfeit, fraudulently or with intent that fraud

terfeit.

Delivery of Queen's coin possessed with

it is counterfeit.

may be committed, delivers the same to any person, or attempts to induce any person to receive it, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXL. Whoever, having any counterfeit coin which is the knowledge that a counterfeit of the Queen's coin, and which, at the time when he became possessed of it, he knew to be a counterfeit of the Queen's coin, fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed, delivers the same to any person, or attempts to induce any person to receive it, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Delivery to another

of coin as genuine which when first

liverer did not

terfeit.

CCXLI. Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine, or attempts to induce any other person to receive possessed the de- as genuine, any counterfeit coin, which he knows to be know to be coun- counterfeit, but which he did not know to be counterfeit at the time when he took it into his possession, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine to an amount which may extend to ten times the value of the coin counterfeited, or with both.

Illustration.

A, a coiner; delivers counterfeit Company's rupees to his accomplice B, for the purpose of uttering them. B sells the rupees to C, another

utterer, who buys them knowing them to be counterfeit. C pays away the rupees for goods to D, who receives them not knowing them to be counterfeit. D, after receiving the rupees, discovers that they are counterfeit, and pays them away as if they were good. Here D is punishable only under this section, but B and C are punishable under Section 239 or 240, as the case may be.

CCXLII. Whoever fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed, is in possession of counterfeit coin, having known at the time when he became possessed thereof, that such coin was counterfeit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXLIII. Whoever fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed, is in possession of counterfeit coin which is a counterfeit of the Queen's coin, having known at the time when he became possessed of it that it was counterfeit, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

a mint causing coin to be of a different weight or composition from that fixed by law.

CCXLIV. Whoever, being employed in any mint law- Person employed in fully established in British 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.

CCXLV. Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint lawfully established in British India, any coining tool or instrument, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

CCXLVI. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly performs on any coin any operation which diminishes the weight or alters the composition of that coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.

Explanation.-A person who scoops out part of the coin, and puts any thing else into the cavity, alters the composition of that coin.

Unlawfully taking from a mint any coining instrument.

Fraudulently or dis honestly diminishing the weight or altering the composition of any

coin.