law: Railways Act, 1989
  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.