Whether Nationalised Bank Employee is Entitled to get protection of S 197 CrPC ?

[Educator]

The Appellant was serving as an Assistant General Manager, State Bank of India, Overseas Bank at Hyderabad. State Bank of India is a Nationalised Bank. Although a person working in a Nationalised Bank is a public servant, yet the provisions of Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure would not be attracted at all as Section 197 is attracted only in cases where the public servant is such