Section 56:
Power of officers exercising jurisdiction under Act, with regard to false evidence.
If, in any case in which a Collector or other Officer shall exercise Jurisdiction under this
Act, any person is guilty of the offence of giving or fabricating false evidence, or of forgery, as
defined in the Indian Penal Code, or of abetting any of those offences, such Collector or other Officer
shall have the same powers in respect of such offence, and of the person charged with, committing the
same, as are vested by the Code of Criminal Procedure in a Civil Court, when any such offence is
committed before or against such Court, or when a document charged to be a forgery is given in
evidence in any proceedings in such Court.