law: Factories Act, 1948 
  90. Power to direct enquiry into cases of accident or
  
  disease 
  (1) The State Government may, if it considers it expedient so to
  
  do, appoint a competent person to inquire into the causes of any accident
  
  occurring in a factory or into any case where a disease specified in 104[the
  
  Third Schedule] has been, or is suspected to have been, contracted in a
  
  factory, and may also appoint one or more persons possessing legal or special
  
  knowledge to act as assessors in such inquiry.
  (2) The person appointed to hold an inquiry under this section
  
  shall have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure,
  
  1908 (5 of 1908), for the purposes of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and
  
  compelling the production of documents and material objects, and may also, so
  
  far as may be necessary for the purposes of the inquiry, exercise any of the
  
  powers of an Inspector under this Act; and every person required by the person
  
  making the inquiry to furnish any information shall be deemed to be legally
  
  bound so to do within the meaning of section 176 of the Indian Penal Code (45
  
  of 1860).
  (3) The person holding an inquiry under this section shall make
  
  a report to the State Government stating the causes of the accident, or as the
  
  case may be, disease, and any attendant circumstances, and adding any
  
  observations which he or any of the assessors may think fit to make.
  (4) The State Government may, if it thinks fit, cause to be
  
  published any report made under this section or any extracts there from.
  (5) The State Government may make rules for regulating the
  
  procedure as inquiries under this section.