Power to summon: authorises officers to compel attendance, production of documents and treats inquiries as judicial proceedings. Section 70 empowers the proper officer to summon any person to give evidence or produce documents or other things in any inquiry, in the same manner as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, and declares every such inquiry to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections relating to false evidence and obstruction under the Penal Code.
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Power to summon: authorises officers to compel attendance, production of documents and treats inquiries as judicial proceedings.
Section 70 empowers the proper officer to summon any person to give evidence or produce documents or other things in any inquiry, in the same manner as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, and declares every such inquiry to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections relating to false evidence and obstruction under the Penal Code.
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