The Telangana Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1993.

 

 

THE TELANGANA DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES (ENFORCEMENT 
OF ATTENDANCE OF WITNESS AND PRODUCTION OF 

DOCUMENTS) ACT, 1993. 

(ACT NO. 7 OF 1993) 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

Sections 

1. Short title and extent. 

2. Departmental inquiries to which the Act shall apply. 

3. Definitions. 

4. Authorisation of Inquiring authority to exercise the 
powers specified in section 5. 

5. Power to authorise inquiring authority to enforce 
attendance of witnesses and production of documents. 

6. Territorial limits in which powers specified in section 5 
may be exercised. 

7. Power to make Rules. 

 



THE TELANGANA DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRIES 
(ENFORCEMENT OF ATTENDANCE OF WITNESS AND 

PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS) ACT, 1993.1 
 

ACT No.7 OF 1993. 
 
1. (1) This Act may be called the 2Telangana 
Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of Attendance of 
Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1993. 
 
 (2) It extends to the whole of the State of 2Telangana. 
 
2. The provisions of this Act, shall apply to every 
Departmental inquiry made in relation to,- 
 
 (a) officers and servants of High Court and Courts 
subordinate to the High Court in the State; 
 
 (b) persons appointed to the judicial service of the 
State; 
 
 (c) persons appointed to public services or posts in 
connection with the affairs of the State; 
 
 (d) persons, who having been appointed to any public 
service or post in connection with the affairs of the State are 
on deputation to,- 
 
  (i) any local authority in the State; 
                                                           
1. The Andhra Pradesh Departmental Inquiries (Enforcement of 
Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Documents) Act, 1993 
received the assent of the Governor on the 1st February, 1993. The said 
Act in force in the combined State, as on 02.06.2014, has been adapted 
to the State of Telangana, under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh 
Reorganisation Act, 2014 (Central Act 6 of 2014) vide. the Telangana 
Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016, issued in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) 
Department, dated 01.06.2016. 
2. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. 

Short title and 
extent. 

Departmental 

inquiries to which 

the Act shall 

apply. 



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  (ii) any corporation (other than a local authority) 
established by or under any law for the time being in force 
and owned or controlled by the State Government; 
 
  (iii) any Government Company, within the meaning of 
section 617 of the 3Companies Act, 1956 in which not less 
than fifty one per cent of the paid-up share capital is held by 
the State Government or any company which is a subsidiary 
to such Government Company; 
 
  (iv) any society registered under the 4Societies 
Registration Act, 1860 or 4the Telangana Public Societies 
Registration Act, 1350F in its application to the State of 
5Telangana which is subject to the control of the State, 
Government. 
 
3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- 
 
 (a) “Competent Authority” means the authority 
competent to appoint the Inquiring Authority; 
 
 (b) “Departmental Inquiry” means an inquiry under and 
in accordance with– 
 
  (i) any law made by the State Legislature or any rule 
made thereunder; or 
 
  (ii) any rule made under articles 229, 234 or the 
proviso to article 309 or continued under article 313 of the 
Constitution of India; 
 

                                                           
3. Now see the relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 (Central 
Act No.18 of 2013). 
4. Now see the provisions of the Telangana Societies Registration Act, 
2001 (Act 35 of 2001). 
5. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. 

Definitions. 

Central Act 1of 1956. 

Central Act 21 of 1860. 
 
Act I of 1350F. 



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  held into any allegation of lack of integrity against any 
person to whom this Act applies; 
 
 (c) “Government” means the State Government of 
6Telangana; 
 
 (d) “Inquiring Authority” means an officer or authority 
appointed by the competent authority to hold a 
departmental inquiry and includes any officer or authority, 
who is empowered by or under any law or rule for the time 
being in force to hold such inquiry; 
 
 (e) “lack of integrity” includes bribery or corruption and 
any mala-fide act of omission or commission; 
 
 (f) “Notification” means notification published in the 
6Telangana Gazette and the word “notified” shall be 
construed accordingly; 
 
 (g) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made 
under this Act; 
 
 (h) “State” means the State of 6Telangana. 
 
4. Where in any departmental inquiry it is necessary to 
summon as witness or call for any document from, any 
person or a class or category of persons, the Inquiring 
Authority may exercise the power specified in section 5 in 
relation to any such person or a person within such class or 
category, at any stage of the departmental inquiry if he is 
authorised by order in writing in this behalf by such officer 
not below the rank of Secretary to Government as the State 
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette 
designate, and different officers of such rank may be 

                                                           
6. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. 

Authorisation of 
Inquiring authority 
to exercise the 
powers specified 
in section 5. 



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designated for different class or classes of departmental 
inquiries or for different local areas of the State. 
 
5. (1) Every Inquiring Authority authorised under section 
4, (hereinafter referred to as “the authorised inquiry 
authority”) shall have the same powers as are vested in a 
Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, while 
trying a suit in respect of the following matters, namely:- 
 
  (a) the summoning and enforcing the attendance of 
any witness and examining him on oath; 
 
  (b) requiring the discovery and production of any 
document or other material which is producible as evidence; 
 
  (c) receiving evidence on affidavits; 
 
  (d) requisitioning of any public record or copy thereof 
from any court or office; 
 
  (e) issuing commission for the examination of 
witnesses or documents; 
 
  (f) any such other matters as may be prescribed. 
 
 (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section 
(1), the authorised inquiring authority shall not compel, 
 
  (i) the Lokayukta or Upa-Lokayukta or any member of 
their staff to appear before him to give any evidence relating 
to any information obtained by them in the course of, or for 
the purposes of, any investigation under the 7Telangana 
Lokayukta Act, 1983 or to produce evidence recorded or 
collected by them in connection with such information; 

                                                           
7. Adapted in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. 

Power to 
authorise 
inquiring authority 
to enforce 
attendance of 
witnesses and 
production of 
documents. 
Central Act V of 1908. 

Act 11 of 1983. 



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  (ii) The Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India 
and subsidiary banks as defined in clause (k) of section 2 of 
the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, any 
corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the 
Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of 
Undertakings) Act, 1970 or the Banking Companies 
(Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 or a 
Regional Rural Bank established under section 3 of the 
Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976, the Industrial Development 
Bank of India established under section 3 of the Industrial 
Development Bank of India Act, 1964, the Export-Import 
Bank of India established under section 3 of the Export-
Import Bank Act, 1981, the National Bank for Agriculture and 
Rural Development established under section 3 of the 
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 
1981, the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India 
established under section 3 of the Industrial Reconstruction 
Bank of India Act, 1984, the Industrial Credit and Investment 
Corporation of India established under the Indian 
Companies Act, 1913 the Industrial Finance Corporation 
established under section 3 of the Industrial Finance 
Corporation of India Act, 1948, State Financial Corporations 
established under the State Financial Corporations Act, 
1951, National Housing Bank established under section 3 of 
the National Housing Bank, 1987, or any company or co-
operative society carrying on the business of banking as 
defined in clause (b) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation 
Act, 1949 or any other public financial institution so notified 
by the Central Government,- 
 
  (a) to produce any books of accounts or other 
documents which Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of 
India, the Subsidiary Bank of State Bank of India, any 
corresponding new bank, the Regional Rural Bank, the 
Industrial Development Bank of India, the Export-Import 
Bank of India, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 
Development, the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India, 

Central Act 38 of 1959. 

Central Act 5 of 1970. 

Central Act 40 of 1980. 

Central Act 21 of 1976. 

Central Act 18 of 1964. 

Central Act 28 of 1981. 

Central Act 61 of 1981. 

Central Act 62 of 1984. 

Central Act 15 of 1948. 

Central Act 63 of 1951. 

Central Act 53 of 1987. 

Central Act 10 of 1949. 



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the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, the 
Industrial Finance Corporation of India, the State Financial 
Corporations, the National Housing Bank, or any company 
of Co-operative Society carrying on the business of banking 
as defined in clause (b) of section 5 of the Banking 
Regulation Act, 1949, claims to be of a confidential nature or 
any other public financial institution so notified by the 
Central Government; or 
 
  (b) to make any such books or documents, a part of 
the record of the proceedings of the departmental inquiry; or 
 
  (c) to give inspection of any such books or 
documents, if produced to any party before it or to any other 
person. 
 
 (3) Every process issued by an authorised inquiring 
authority for attendance of any witness or for the production 
of any document shall be served and executed through the 
District Judge within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the 
witness or other person, on whom the process is to be 
served or executed, voluntarily resides or carries on 
business or personally works for gain and for the purpose of 
taking any action for the disobedience of any such process, 
every such process shall be deemed to be a process issued 
by the District Judge. 
 
 (4) Every authorised inquiring authority making any 
departmental inquiry under this Act shall be deemed to be a 
Civil Court for the purposes of sections 345 and 346 of the 
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. 
 
6. For the purpose of exercising the powers specified in 
section 5, the territorial jurisdiction of every authorised 

Territorial limits in 
which powers 
specified in 
section 5 may be 
exercised. 

Central Act 10 of 1949. 

Central Act 2 of 1974. 



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inquiring authority shall extend to the whole of the State of 
8Telangana. 
 
7. (1) The Government may, by notification, make rules to 
carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act. 
 
 (2) Every rule made under this Act shall immediately 
after it is made, be laid before the Legislature of the State if it 
is in session and if it is not in session, in the session 
immediately following for a total period of fourteen days 
which may be comprised in one session or in two 
successive sessions, and if, before the expiration of the 
session in which it is so laid or the session immediately 
following the Legislature agrees in making any modification 
in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall from 
the date on which the modification or annulment is notified, 
have effect only in such modified form or shall stand 
annulled, as the case may be; so however, that any such 
modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the 
validity of anything previously done under that rule. 
 

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8. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. 

Power to make 
Rules. 


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