law: Factories Act, 1948 
  8. Inspectors 
  (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
  
  appoint such persons as possess the prescribed qualification to be Inspectors
  
  for the purposes of this Act and may assign to them such local limits as it may
  
  think fit.
  (2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, appoint any person to be a Chief Inspector who shall, in addition to
  
  the powers conferred on a Chief Inspector under this Act, exercise the powers
  
  of an Inspector through out the State.
   7  [(2A) The State Government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette, appoint as many Additional Chief Inspectors, Joint Chief
  
  Inspectors and Deputy Chief Inspectors and as many other officers as it thinks
  
  fit to assist the Chief Inspector and to exercise such of the powers of the
  
  Chief Inspector as may be specified in such notification.
  (2B) Every Additional Chief Inspector, Joint Chief Inspector,
  
  Deputy Chief Inspector and every other officer appointed under sub-section (2A)
  
  shall, in addition to the powers of a Chief Inspector specified in the
  
  notification by which he is appointed, exercise the powers of an Inspector
  
  throughout the State.]
  (3) No person shall be appointed under sub-section (1),
  
  sub-section (2) 7[,sub-section (2A)] or sub-section (5) or, having
  
  been so appointed, shall continue to hold office, who is or becomes directly or
  
  indirectly interested in a factory or in any process or business carried on
  
  therein or in any patent or machinery connected therewith.
  (4) Every District Magistrate shall be an Inspector for his
  
  district.
  (5) The State Government may also, by notification as aforesaid,
  
  appoint such public officers as it thinks fit to be additional Inspectors for
  
  all or any of the purposes of this Act, within such local limits as it may
  
  assign to them respectively.
  (6) In any area where there are more Inspectors than one the
  
  State Government may, by notification as aforesaid, declare the powers, which
  
  such Inspectors shall respectively exercise and the Inspector to whom the
  
  prescribed notices are to be sent.
  (7) 27[Every Chief Inspector, Additional Chief Inspector,
  
  Joint Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspector, Inspector and every other
  
  officer appointed under this section] shall be deemed to be a public servant
  
  within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), and shall be
  
  officially subordinate to such authority as the State Government may specify in
  
  this behalf.