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Powers of Election Commission. – (1) Where in connection with the tendering of any opinion to the Administrator under sub-section (2) of section 25, the Election Commission considers it necessary or proper to make an inquiry, and the Commission is satisfied that on the basis of the affidavits filed and the documents produced in such inquiry by the parties concerned of their own accord, it cannot come to a decisive opinion on the matter which is being inquired into, the Commission shall have for the purposes of such inquiry the powers of a civil court, while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act No. 5 of 1908) in respect of the following matters, namely: -- (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath; (b) requiring the discovery and production of any document or other material object producible as evidence; (c) receiving evidence on affidavits; (d) requisitioning any public record or a copy thereof from any court or office; (e) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents. (2) The Commission shall also have the power to require any person to furnish information on such points or matters as in the opinion of the Commission may be useful for, or relevant to, the subject-matter of the inquiry. * Sections 25, 25A, 25B, 25C and 25D substituted and came into force on 23-4-1994 by amendment Act 5 of 1994. 501 (3) The Commission shall be deemed to be a civil court and when any such offence, as is described in section 175, section 178, section 179, section 180 or section 228 of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act 45 of 1860) is committed in the view or presence of the Commission, the Commission may, after recording the facts constituting the offence and the statement of the accused as provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), forward the case to the magistrate having jurisdiction to try the same and the magistrate to whom any such case is forwarded shall proceed to bear the complaint against the accused as if the case has been forwarded to him under section 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974). (4) Any proceeding before the Commission shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and section 228 of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act 45 of 1860).