Inspection of Marketing and enquiry into affairs of Market Committee

(1) The Director may :— (a) inspect or cause to be inspected the account and Offices of Market Committee: (b) hold enquiry into the affairs of the market committee; (c) call for from a Market Committee return, Statement, accounts or report which he may think fit to require such committee to furnish; (d) require a Market Committee to take into consideration; (i) any objection on the ground of illegality, inexpediency or impropriety which appears to him to exist to the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by or on behalf of such committee, or; (ii) any information he is able to furnish and which appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by such committee; (e) direct that anything which about to be done or is being should not be done, pending consideration of the reply, and anything which should be done but is not being done should be done within such time as he may direct. (2) When the affairs of a Market Committee are investigated under this Section or the proceeding of any Market Committee are examined by the Director under section 88, the Chairman, Vice--Chairman, Secretary, and all other Officers and servants and members of such Committee shall furnish such information in their possession in regard to the affairs on proceeding of Market Committee as the Director or the Officer authorised as the case may be, may require. (3) An Officer investigating the affairs of the Market Committee under Sub-section (1) or the State Govt., examining the proceeding of any Market Committee under Section 26 shall have the power to summon and enforce the attendence of officers and members of the Market Committee and to compel them to give evidence and to produce documents by the same means and as far as possible the same manner as is provided in the case of a Civil Court by the Code of Civil Procedure,1973. (4) Where the Director has reason to believe that the books and records of a Market Committee are likely to be tampered with or destroyed or the funds or property of a Market Committee are likely to be mis-appropriated or misapplied, the Director may issue order directing a person duly authorised by him in writing to seize and to take possession of such books and records, funds and property of the Market Committee and officer or officers of the Market Committee responsible for the custody of such books and records, funds and property shall give delivery thereof to the person so authorised,