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

Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in 1 [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.

² The words “British India” have successively been subs. by the A.O. 1 948, the A.O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Sch., to read as above.