Power to summon: officers may require attendance and production of documents; inquiries treated as judicial proceedings under penal law.

Proper officers under the Karnataka GST Act may summon persons to give evidence or produce documents in inquiries, exercising powers analogous to a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure; those inquiries are deemed to be judicial proceedings under the Indian Penal Code, invoking penal consequences for false evidence and related offences.

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