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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Making or possessing
instrument or
materials for forging
or counterfeiting
currencynotes or
banknotes
489D. Whoever makes, or performs any part of the process of making, or buys
or sells or disposes of, or has in his possession, any machinery, instrument or
material for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe
that it is intended to be used, for forging or counterfeiting any currencynote or
banknote, shall be punished with 160[ imprisonment] for life, or with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and
shall also be liable to fine.]
Making or using
161[ 489E.
documents
resembling currency
notes or banknotes
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
currencynote or banknote shall be punished with fine which may extend to one
hundred taka.
(2) If any person, whose name appears on a document the making of which is
an offence under subsection (1), refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a
policeofficer on being so required the name and address of the person by whom
it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be punished with fine which may
extend to two hundred taka.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which
any person is charged with an offence under subsection (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.]
CHAPTER XIX
OF THE CRIMINAL BREACH OF CONTRACTS OF SERVICE
162[ Repealed]
490. [Repealed by the Workmen's Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (Act
No. III of 1925).]
491. 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 term which may extend to
three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred taka, or with both.
Breach of contract to
attend on and supply
wants of helpless
person
163[ Repealed]
492. [Repealed by the Workmen's Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (Act
No. III of 1925).]
CHAPTER XX
OF OFFENCES RELATING TO MARRIAGE
Cohabitation caused
by a man deceitfully
inducing a belief of
lawful marriage
493. Every man who by deceit causes any woman who is not lawfully married to
him to believe that she is lawfully married to him and to cohabit or have sexual
intercourse with him in that belief, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to
fine.
Marrying again during
lifetime of husband or
wife
494. Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such
marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such husband or
wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which
may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Exception. This section does not extend to any person whose marriage with such
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