Registrar and other officers to be public servants.

The Registrar, a person exercising the powers of the Registrar, an officer as defined in clause

1. (20) of section 2, or a person appointed as an Official Assignee under sub-section (2) of section 21 A, or as an Administrator under section 77A or 78, or a person authorised to seize books, records or funds of a society under sub-section (3) of section 80, or to audit the accounts of a society under section 81 or to hold an inquiry under section 83, or to make an inspection under section 84, or 89A or to make an order under section 88, or a person appointed as a member constituting a Cooperative Court under section 91A or the Co- operative Appellate Court under section 149 or a Liquidator under section 103, shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.