PPC § 489E — Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes

Statutory text (English)

(1)
Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or delivers to any person,
any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated
to deceive, any currency-note or bank-note shall be punished with 3[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 3[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 that person caused
the document to be made.]

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.489E: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 169, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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