Power to summon: officers may compel attendance and document production; inquiries deemed judicial proceedings with penal consequences. Section 70 empowers the proper officer to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents in any inquiry in the same manner as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, and declares such inquiries to be judicial proceedings attracting penal consequences for false evidence and disappearance of evidence.
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Power to summon: officers may compel attendance and document production; inquiries deemed judicial proceedings with penal consequences.
Section 70 empowers the proper officer to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents in any inquiry in the same manner as a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, and declares such inquiries to be judicial proceedings attracting penal consequences for false evidence and disappearance of evidence.
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