Obligation to furnish information

(1) Any person whose rights and interest of liabilities are required to have been entered in any record or register under this Act or any other Act which is operated by the Revenue Department shall be bound, on the requisition of any officer engaged in compiling or registering the record or register, to furnish or produce for his inspection within thirty days 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) An officer to whom any information is furnished or before whom any documents is produced in accordance with a requisition under sub-section (1) shall at once give a written acknowledgement thereof to the person furnishing or producing the same or may return the same immediately after keeping a copy of it, if necessary, and shall endorse on any such documents a note under his signature stating the fact of its producing and the date thereof. (3) Any person who fails to furnish information or produce the documents required by sub-section (1) within the period specified in the said sub-section shall be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding Rs. 1,000, as may be fixed by the competent authority and the amount payable as penalty shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue : Provided that no penalty shall be imposed under this sub-section without giving to the person concerned a reasonable opportunity to be heard.