law: The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
  27. Court assistance
  
  in taking evidence.
  1.  
  
    The
  
  arbitral tribunal, or a party with the approval of the arbitral tribunal, may
  
  apply to the Court for assistance in taking evidence.
  2.  
  
    The
  
  application shall specify-
  a.   the raises and
  
  addresses of the panics and the arbitrators,
  b.   the general nature of
  
  the claim and the relief sought,-
  c.   the evidence to be
  
  obtained, in particular,-
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  name and addresses of any person to be heard as witness or expert witness and a
  
  statement of the subject- matter of the testimony required;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    the
  
  description of any document to be produced or property to be inspected.
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  3.  
  
    The
  
  Court may, within its competence and according to its rules on taking evidence,
  
  execute the request by ordering that the evidence be provided directly to the
  
  arbitral tribunal.
  4.  
  
    The
  
  Court may, while making an order under sub-section (3), issue the same
  
  processes to witnesses as it may issue in suits tried before it.
  5.  
  
    Persons
  
  failing to attend in accordance with such process, or making any other default,
  
  or refusing to give their evidence, or guilty of any contempt to the arbitral
  
  tribunal during the conduct of arbitral proceedings, shall be subject to the
  
  like disadvantages, penalties and punishments by order of the Court on the
  
  representation of 12 the arbitral tribunal as they would for the like offences
  
  in suits tried before the Court.
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    In
  
  this section the expression "Processes" includes summonses and
  
  commissions for the examination of witnesses and summonses to produce
  
  documents.