General Explanations
IPC Section 28 - "Counterfeit"
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 28 deals with "counterfeit".
Full official legal text
28. "Counterfeit". A person is said to "counterfeit" who causes one thing to resemble another
thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practise deception, or knowing it to be likely that
deception will thereby be practised.
1[Explanation 1.--It is not essential to counterfeiting that the imitation should be exact.
Explanation 2.-- When a person causes one thing to resemble another thing, and the resemblance is
such that a person might be deceived thereby, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the
person so causing the one thing to res emble the other thing intended by means of that resemblance to
practise deception or knew it to be likely that deception would thereby be practised.]
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