Fake Rs 10 coin

 If your Rs 10 coin is rejected by the shopkeeper or anyone else, you have the legal right to file a criminal case against that person." In fact you can file a case under sedition.
How to file case against person not accepting Rs 10 coin:

Go to jurisdictional police station

Show police the Rs 10 coin that was rejected

Give details of person who rejected the coin

Cite the RBI's rules

Say it amounts to sedition

Get FIR lodged

Police will launch investigation

Thank you, for spreading awareness.

Originally posted by : Mahesh
	If your Rs 10 coin is rejected by the shopkeeper or anyone else, you have the legal right to file a criminal case against that person." In fact you can file a case under sedition.How to file case against person not accepting Rs 10 coin:Go to jurisdictional police stationShow police the Rs 10 coin that was rejectedGive details of person who rejected the coinCite the RBI's rulesSay it amounts to seditionGet FIR lodgedPolice will launch investigation

IS it Possible to do this thing practically, will Police support such complaints?

Definetly. following is the extract copied from "The Indian express" website published on 6 oct 2017

A case has been registered against a shopkeeper at Joura town in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly refusing to accept Rs 10 coins. “We registered a case on the complaint filed by a buyer who had offered two coins of Rs 10 to buy a handkerchief. The shopkeeper refused to accept the coins,” said Joura police station in-charge Praveen Tripathi.

The incident took place last evening. A charge under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) was pressed against the shopkeeper.

The punishment under the section can extend up to six months in prison. Following the reports that shopkeepers were refusing to accept Rs 10 coins, the district collector had recently issued a circular, stating that such a refusal would be considered disrespect to the Indian currency, Tripathi said.

Thanks for your effort. But before taking any action, how can I make sure that the coin that I have with me is actually not a fake coin.

Ten Things to know about RBI's latest stand on Rs 10 coins

1. Since currency coins have longer life, so coins of different designs and shapes circulate in the market at the same time.

2. There are a total of 14 types of Rs 10 coins issued by the RBI.

3. In the past also, the RBI issued a press release on November 20, 2016 exhorting the members of the public to continue to accept coins of Rs 10 denomination as legal tender in all their transactions without any hesitation.

4. The Reserve Bank has also advised banks to accept Rs 10 coins for transactions and exchange at all their branches.

5. In a statement issued on November 20, 2016, the RBI had said that there are two distinct Rs 10 coins, one with rupee symbol and the another without rupee symbol. Both of them are legal tender and equally good for transactions, though they may look a little different.

6. It has been reported that some less-informed or uninformed persons who suspect the genuineness of such coins are creating doubts in the minds of ordinary people including traders, shop-keepers, etc., impeding the circulation of these coins in certain pockets of the country causing avoidable confusion, RBI said.

7. The Reserve Bank has advised members of the public not to give credence to such ill-informed notions and ignore them and continue to accept these coins as legal tender in all their transactions without any hesitation, the statement on November 20, said.

8. The oldest Rs 10 coin was issued on March 26, 2009. The face of the coin is divided into three portions with two horizontal lines. The centre portion bears the lion capitol of Ashoka pillar with "satyamev jayte" written in Hindi written below.

On the reverse side, Rs 10 is written in international numerals and in lower periphery, the word "rupee" is written in Hindi and English

9. The latest Rs 10 coin was released on June 29, 2017. The coin had the portrait of Shrimad Rajchandra in the centre. The coin was released to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Shrimad Rajchandra.

10. In April this year, RBI had released a Rs 10 coin to commemorate the one hundred twenty five years of National Archives of India. This face of the coin bears the image of National Archives Building in the centre.


From this information identify your coin whether it is fake or not. Also there is no case seen that 10 rupee fake coin has been identified anywhere in country. so it may be assumed that there is no fake coin of ₹ 10/- in market up till now.

or you can directly go to nearest RBI to verify the coin

Also when I enquired about why this issue came up. I could see some article viz daily bhaskar on Google, where this message is spread about fake coins. Can we stop them from spreading such misinformation.