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Potvers relating to inquiries (1) The Commission shall, while inquiring into complaints under this Act, have a1l the powers of a civil court trging a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and in particular in respect of the f'oliowing matters, namelv : . (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of witnesses and exam ining them on oath; (b) discoverg and production of any document; (c) receiving evidence on affidavits; (d) requisitioning ang public record or copg thereof from anp court or office; . x (e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents; - (b any other matter which may be prescribed. (2) The Commîssion shall have power to require ang person, subject to any privilege which mav be claimed bp that person under any law for the tim e being in force, to furnish inform ation on sucb points or m atters as, in the opinion of the Conunission, mag be useful for, or relevant to! the subject matter of tlne inquiw and anp person so required shall be deemed 9 to be legallv bound to furnish such information within the meaning of section 176 and section 177 of the Indian Penal Code. . (3) The Commission or anp other officer, not below the rank of a Gazetted O fficer, speciallp authorised in this behalf bv the Comm ission m av ' enter anp building or place where the Com rnission has reason to believè that any document relating to the subject matter of the inquily may be found, and map seize an# such document or take extracts or copies therefrom subject to the provisions of section 1O0 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, in so far as it mag be applicable. (4) The Commission shall be deemed to be a civil court and when anv offence as is described in section 175. section 178,.section 179, section 180 or section 228 of the lndian Penal Code is committed in the view or presence of the Commission, the Commissiop mav, after recording the facts constituting the offence and the statement of thç accused as provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, fonvard the case to a Magistratë having jurisdiction to try the same and the Magistrate to whom anv such case is forwarded shall proceed to hear the com plaint against the accused as if the case has been forwarded to him under section 346 of the Code of Crim inal Procedure, 1973. (5) Everp proceeding before the Commission dhail be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purposes of section 196, of the Indian Penal Code, and the Commission shall be deemed to be a civil court for all the pum oses of section 195 and Chapter XXUI of the Code of Crim inal Procedure, 1973. (6)1 Where the Commission considers it necessarp or expedient so d it may bv order,' transfer anp complaint filed or pending' before it to o, , to the State Commission of the State from which the complaint arises, for Jlisposal in accordance with the provisions of 'this Act; Provided tihat no such complaint shall be transferred unlèss the same fs onc f'cspecting whfch the Sùafc Commission has jurisdicfion to entertain th ' e same. t Inserted bp Act 43 of 2006 . (7)1 Evew complaint transferred under sub-sectiont6) shall be dealt with and disposed of bp the State Commission as if it were a complaint irlitiilllqp fiI (,tl t) (? fûl r (, it. '