Section 21

Court, and every person specially authorised by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties;

( ' 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;

( j j every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;

Government, or to execute any revenue process, or to investigate or to report on any matter affecting the pecuniary interests of

Government, or to make, authenticate or keep any document relating to the pecuniary interests oTGovernment or toprevent the infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of

Government, and every officer in the service or pay of Government, or remunerated by fees or commission for the performance of any public duty;

0) every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend 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.

A Municipal Chairman is a public servant.

Explanation I -

Persons falling under any of the above descriptions are public servants, whether appointed by the Government or not.

Explanation 2 -

Wherever the words "public servant" occur, they shall be understood of every person who is in actual possession of the situation of a public servant, whatever legal defect there may be in his right to hold that situation.

"Movable property"