law: Commission of Enquiries Act, 1952
  5. Additional powers of Commission - 
  (1) Where the appropriate Government is of opinion that,
  
  having regard to the nature of the inquiry to be made and other circumstances
  
  of the case, all or any of the provisions of sub section (2) or sub section (3)
  
  or sub section (4) or sub section (5) should be made applicable to a
  
  Commission, the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, direct that all or such of the said provisions as may be specified in
  
  the notification shall apply to that Commission and on the issue of such a
  
  notification, the said provisions shall apply accordingly.
  (2) The Commission shall have power to require any person,
  
  subject to any privilege which may be claimed by that person under any law for
  
  the time being in force, 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 [(Note:- Ins. by Act 79 of 1971, sec.7) and any
  
  person so required shall be deemed to be legally bound to furnish such
  
  information within the meaning of section 176 and section 177 of the Indian
  
  Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860)].
  (3) The Commission or any officer, not below the rank of a
  
   Gazetted Officer, specially authorized in this behalf
  
  by the Commission may enter any building or place where the Commission has
  
  reason to believe that any books of account or other documents relating to the
  
  subject matter of the inquiry may be found, and may seize any books of accounts
  
  or documents or take extracts or copies there from, subject to the provisions
  
  of section 102 and section 103 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of
  
  1898), in so far as they may be applicable.
  (4) The Commission shall be deemed to be a civil court and
  
  when any offence as is described in section 175, section 178, section 179,
  
  section 180 or section 228 of the Indian Penal Code (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, 1898 (5 of 1898), forward the 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 had been forwarded to him under section 482 of the Code of
  
  Criminal Procedure, 1898.
  (5) Any proceeding before the Commission shall be deemed
  
  to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228 of the
  
  Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).