Powers of Revenue Officers to require attendance of persons and production of documents and to receive evidence

Powers of Revenue Officers to require attendance of persons and production of documents and to receive evidence. -

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of Sections 132 and 133 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908) and to rules made under Section 41, every Revenue Officer acting as a Revenue Court shall have power to take evidence, to summon any person whose attendance he considers necessary either to be examined as a party or to give evidence as a witness or to produce any document for the purposes of any inquiry or case arising under this Code or any other enactment for the time being in force.
2. (2) No person shall be ordered to attend in person, unless he resides —
   • (a) within the limits of the tahsil if the Revenue Officer acting as a Revenue Officer is a Naib-Tahsildar and in the case of any other Revenue Officer, within the local limits of his jurisdiction; or
   • (b) without such limits but at a place less than fifty, or where there is a railway communication or other established public conveyance for five-sixths of the distance between the place where he resides and the place where he is summoned to attend, less than two hundred miles distant from such place.
3. (3) Any person present may be required by any such Revenue Officer to give evidence or to produce any document then and there in his possession or power.
4. (4) Every such Revenue Officer shall have power to issue a commission to examine any person who is exempted from attending Court or who cannot be ordered to attend in person or is unable to attend on account of sickness or infirmity.