Section 188: Railway servants to be public servants for the purposes of Chapter IX and section 409 of the Indian Penal Code

(1) Any railway servant, who is not a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), shall be deemed to be a public servant for the purposes of Chapter IX and section 409 of that Code.

(2) In the definition of legal remuneration in section 161 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), the word Government shall, for the purposes of sub-section (1), be deemed to include any employer of a railway servant as such.

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