Can any government servant be an ‘informant’ and claim a reward under the scheme?

Government servant informant exclusion bars rewards for information obtained in course of official duties under informant reward scheme

No reward is payable under the informant reward scheme for information or evidence furnished by a government servant that was obtained in the course of normal official duties; employees of Central, State and Union Territory governments, nationalised banks, local authorities, public sector undertakings and governmental corporations or establishments are deemed government servants for this exclusion.