law: Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 
  12. Powers of the Commission 
  (1) The Commission shall for the purposes of any inquiry under
  
  this Act have the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of
  
  Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), while trying a suit, in respect of the
  
  following matters, namely,-
  (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance
  
  of any witness and examining him on oath;
  (b) the discovery and production of any
  
  document or other material object producible as evidence;
  (c) the reception of evidence on affidavits;
  (d) the requisitioning of any public record
  
  from any court or office;
  (e) the issuing of any Commission for the
  
  examination of witnesses;
   26  [(f) the appearance of parties and
  
  consequence of non-appearance.]
  (2) 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), and the Commission shall be deemed to be a civil court
  
  for the purposes of section 195 35[and Chapter XXVI of the Code of
  
  Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).]
  (3) The Commission shall have power to require any person-
  (a) to produce before, and allow to be
  
  examined and kept by, an officer of the Commission specified in this behalf,
  
  such books, accounts or other documents in the custody or under the control of
  
  the person so required as may be specified or described in the requisition,
  
  being documents relating to any trade practice, the examination of which may be
  
  required for the purposes of this Act, and
  (b) to furnish to an officer so specified such
  
  information as respects the trade practice as may be required for the Act or
  
  such other information as maybe in his possession in relation to the trade
  
  carried on by any other person.
  (4) For the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses the
  
  local limits of the Commission’s jurisdiction shall be the limits of the
  
  territory of India.
   10  [(5) Where, during any inquiry under this Act, the
  
  Commission has any grounds to believe that any books or papers of, or relating
  
  to any undertaking in relation to which such inquiry is being made or which the
  
  owner of such undertaking may be required to produce in such inquiry, are
  
  being, or may be, destroyed, mutilated, altered, falsified or secreted, it may,
  
  by a written order, authorize any officer of the Commission to exercise the
  
  same powers of entry, search and seizure in relation to the undertaking, or the
  
  books or papers, aforesaid as may be exercised by the Director General while
  
  holding a preliminary investigation under section 11.]