law: Government Securities Act 2006
  26.
  
  Bank and its officers to be public officers. -
  For
  
  the purposes of section 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the provisions of
  
  Part IV of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 relating to suits by or against
  
  public officers in their official capacity, and the provisions of rule 27 of
  
  Order V, and rule 52 of Order XXI of the said Code, the Bank and any officer of
  
  the Bank acting in his capacity as such shall be deemed to be a public officer.