to any person, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling or so nearly
resembling, as to be calculated to device, any currency-note or bank-note shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year,
or with fine or with both.
(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is an offence
under sub-section (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a police-officer on
being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or
otherwise made, he shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any
person is charged with an offence under sub-section (1) or on any other document used or
distributed in connection with that document it may, until the contrary is proved, be
presumed that person caused the document to be made.
Sec. 489-E ins. by the Penal Code (Amendment) Act, VI of 1943. S. 2.
489-F. Counterfeiting of using documents resembling National Prize Bonds or
un-authorised sale thereof: Whoever counterfeits, or causes to counterfeit, or perform
any act to use for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person any document
purporting to be, or in any manner resembling to the National Prize Bonds, or indulges in
the business of sale or purchase of National Prize Bonds, or promotes such sale or
purchase of National Prize Bonds, in contravention of the rules made for the purpose,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with
fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees, or with both.
Sec. 489-F ins. by Ordinance. LXXII of 95
489-F. Dishonestly issuing a cheque: How ever dishonestly issues a cheque towards
repayment of a loan or fulfilment of an obligation which is dishonoured on presentation,
shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years or with fine, or with
both, unless he can establish, for which the burden of proof shall rest on him, that he had
made arrangements with his bank to ensure that the cheque would be honoured and that
the bank was at fault in not honouring the cheque.
CHAPTER XIX
OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE
490. Breach of contract of service during voyage or journey [Rep. By the Workmen's
Breach of Contract Repealed Act III of 1925), S. 2 and Schedule].
491. Breach of contract to attend on any supply wants of helpless person: Whoever,
being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by
reason of youth; or of unsoundness of mind, or of a disease or bodily weakness, is
helpless or incapable of providing for his own safety or of supplying his own wants,
voluntarily omits so to do, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a