21. The words ”public servant” denote a person falling under any of the descriptions hereinafter following namely:

First: [Repeated by the Adaptation of Laws Order 1950];

Second: Every Commissioned Officer in the Military, Naval or Air Forces of India;

Third: Every judge including any person empowered by law to discharge, whether by
himself or as a member of any body of persons, any adjudicatory functions;

Fourth: Every officer of a Court of Justice (including a liquidator receiver or Commissioner) whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document or to take charge or dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process or to administrator any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order in the Court, and every person specially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties;

Fifth: Every juryman, assessor, or member of a panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or Public servant;

Sixth: Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority;

Seventh: Every person who holds any office by virtue of which to is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;

Eighth: Every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience;

Ninth: Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of the Government, or to make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the Government, or to execute any revenue process or to investigate, or to report on any matter affecting the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to make authenticate or keep any document relating to the pecuniary interests of the Government or to prevent the infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of the Government;

Tenth: Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer to take receive keep or expand any property to make any survey or assessment or to levy any rate or tax for any secular common purpose of any village, town or district, or to make authenticate or keep any document for the ascertaining of the rights of the people of any village, town or district;

Eleventh: Every person who holds any office in virtue of which he is empowered to prepare, publish, maintain or revise an electoral roll or to conduct an election or part of an election;

Twelfth: Every person-