Section 33A(1)

(1) Where in connection with the tendering of any opinion
to the Administrator under sub -section (4) of section 33, the Election Commission considers it necessary
or proper to make an inquiry, and the Commission is satisfied that on the basis of the affidavits filed and
the documents produced in such inquiry by the parties concerned of their own accord, it cannot come to a
decisive opinion on the matter which is being inquired into, the Commission shall have, for the purposes of
such inquiry, the pow ers of a civil court, while trying a suit under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908,
(5 of 1908) in respect of the following matters, namely:—