Section 187: Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in India, does any act,
employed in
mint causing or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the intention of causing any coin issued from
coin to be of that mint to be of a different weight or composition from the weight or composition fixed by
different
weight or law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to
composition seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
from that
fixed by law.