law: Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990
  27.Chairman, Members, etc., to be public
  
  servants
  The Chairman and every other Member, every officer or other
  
  employee of the Corporation and every member of a Committee thereof, the
  
  President and every member of the Broadcasting Council or every member of a
  
  Regional Council or a Recruitment Board shall be deemed to be a public servant
  
  within the meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).