Criminal Procedure Code 225 Compensation for giving in charge groundlessly 438. (1) Whenever any person causes a police officer to arrest another person if it appears to the Magistrate who takes cognizance of the case that there was no sufficient ground for causing the arrest the Magistrate may award such compensation, not exceeding twenty-five ringgit, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to each person so arrested for his loss of time and any expenses incurred by him in the matter as the Magistrate shall think fit. (2) (Omitted). (3) Such compensation shall be no bar to an action for false imprisonment. Magistrate not to act where interested 439. No Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the High Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try any case to or in which he is a party or personally interested. Explanation—A Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party or personally interested within the meaning of this section to or in any case by reason only that he is a member of a local authority or otherwise concerned in it in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed or any other place in which any transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an inquiry in connection with the case. ILLUSTRATION A, as Collector of Land Revenue, upon consideration of information furnished to him directs the prosecution of B for a breach of the land laws. A is disqualified from trying this case as a Magistrate. Public servants not to bid at sales under this Code 440. A public servant, having any duty to perform in connection with the sale of any property under this Code, shall not purchase or bid for the property.