law: National Food Security Act, 2013 
  20. Powers relating to inquiries.
  1.       The
  
  State Commission shall, while inquiring into any matter referred to in clauses
  
  (b) and (e) of sub-section (6) of section 16, have all the powers of a civil
  
  court while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and, in
  
  particular, in respect of the following matters, namely:—
  a.     
  
    summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and
  
  examining him on oath;
  b.    
  
    discovery and production of any document;
  c.     
  
    receiving evidence on affidavits;
  d.    
  
    requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court
  
  or office; and
  e.     
  
    issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or
  
  documents.
  2.       The
  
  State Commission shall have the power to forward any case to a Magistrate
  
  having jurisdiction to try the same and the Magistrate to whom any such case is
  
  forwarded shall proceed to hear the complaint against the accused as if the
  
  case has been forwarded to him under section 346 of the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973.