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Raids by DRI.

5-9-2012
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Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance

05-September-2012 18:20 IST

Raids by DRI

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has conducted raids during the last three years and the current years. The mandate of the DRI is to investigate offences under the Customs Act, 1962 and the NDPS Act, 1985.  The Directorate of has detected causes of commercial fraud and outfight smuggling, details of which are as under:

 

                                                 Anti Smuggling Performance of DRI – At a Glance (Rs. In Crore)

 

Sl. No.

Item of Work

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13 (up to June 2012)

 

 

Number

Value/Duty

Number

Value/

Duty

Number

Value/

Duty

Number

Value/Duty

1.

Seizures

487

680.17

438

895.34

547

3127.70

93

291.47

2.

Commercial Fraud Cases Detected

391

615.23

581

826.47

527

1841.48

138

75.13

3

Investigation completed and SCN issued in CF cases

274

1238.31

399

2953.29

551

2506.06

182

350.13

4.

SCN issued in Outright Smuggling cases

126

34.17

107

78.74

150

278.06

17

18.87

5

Duty Recovered

384

220.87

604

454.80

418

362.04

98

49.70

Note:  In the columns Value/Duty, figures in S.No. 1 & 4 pertain to value of goods and all other pertain to duty involved.

            The Income tax department investigates violations of direct tax laws based on credible information relating to tax evasion, through a set procedure, and brings undisclosed amount to taxation.  Search and seizure is conducted in the case of ‘person’, which includes individuals, Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs), firms, companies, association of persons (AoPs), body of individuals (BoIs), local authorities and any artificial juridical person, who is in possession of any money, bullion, jewellery, documents or any other valuable article or thing which represents undisclosed income.  These persons are engaged in diversified business activities/professions across different sectors.  Therefore, person-wise or profession-wise details are not separately maintained by Income-tax department.  Monitoring of assets of officials is the domain of the respective departments under the relevant conduct regulations.

             This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Shri S.S. Palanimanickam  in written reply to a question in Lok  Sabha today.

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