Section 22
Members, officers and employees of the Board to be public servants.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Board to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate, the securities market and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
All members, officers
and other employees of the Board shall be deemed, when acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any
of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 1860).