Indian Stamp Act, 1899
23A. Certain instruments connected with
mortgages of marketable securities to be chargeable as agreements
(1) Where an instrument (not being a promissory note or bill of
exchange)-
(a) is given upon the occasion of the deposit
of any marketable security by way of security for money advanced or to be
advanced by way of loan, or for an existing or future debt, or
(b) makes redeemable or qualifies a duly
stamped transfer, intended as a security, of any marketable security,
it shall be chargeable with duty as if it were an agreement or
memorandum of an agreement chargeable with duty under 34[Article
No.5(c)] of Schedule I.
(2) A release or discharge of any such instrument shall only be
chargeable with the like duty.]