Powers to summon witnesses and requisition documents

(1) In exercising the powers conferred by or under this Act, the Tribunal, the Registrar or any person authorised by him in this behalf by general or special order, the arbitrator or any other person deciding a dispute, the liquidator of a society, and such other officers engaged in the relief of rural indebtedness or officers of Agricultural Development Banks as the Government may by notification in the Telangana Gazette empower in this behalf, shall have the power of a civil court while trying a suit, under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 in respect of the following matters, namely:- (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath or affirmation; (b) compelling the production of any book, account, record or other document, cash, security or other property; (c) issuing a commission for the examination of any witness; (d) receiving evidence on an affidavit. (2) The Tribunal, the Registrar, the person, the arbitrator, the liquidator or the officer, as the case may be, referred to in sub-section (1), may require any person present before it or him to furnish any information or to produce any document forthwith in his possession or power and shall also have power to take, or to authorise the taking of, such copies of the document or of any entries therein as it or he may consider necessary. Copies so taken shall, when certified in such manner as may be prescribed, be admissible in evidence for any purpose in the same manner and to the same extent as the original document or the entries therein, as the case may be.