Obligation to furnish information

Obligation to furnish information.—

1. (1) Any person whose rights, interests or liabilities are required to be, or have been entered in any record or register, under this chapter shall be bound, on the requisition of any revenue officer or Talathi engaged in compiling or revising the record or register, to furnish or produce for his inspection, within one month from the date of such requisition, all such information or documents needed for the correct compilation or revision thereof as may be within his knowledge or in his possession or power.
2. (2) A revenue officer or a Talathi to whom any information is furnished or before whom any document is produced in accordance with the requisition under sub-section (1), shall at once give a written acknowledgement thereof to the person furnishing or producing the same and shall endorse on any such document a note under his signature stating the fact of its production and the date thereof and may return the same immediately after keeping a copy of it, if necessary.