Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 188, BNS: Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 188 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the IPC provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BNS provision	IPC provision	Relation
Section 188	Section 245	corresponds

From the Bureau of Police Research and Development's official comparison summary (source below). The whole table: IPC to BNS.

The section

188. Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint.

Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in 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.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

India Code: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, section 188 (read 1 September 2026)
Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNS to IPC (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.