Grant of reward to informers and Government servants – Review of Policy, Procedure and Guidelines – regarding.

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..... ants Review of Policy, Procedure and Guidelines regarding. Madam/Sir, I am directed to refer to Ministry s letter of even number dated the 20th June, 2001 on the above subject and to state that the policy/procedure/guidelines in respect of grant of reward to informers and Government servants contained in the said latter stand modified to the extent indicated below : - (i) Para 2.1 .....

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..... tire career. As regards reward in a single case, an individual officer should not be sanctioned a total reward (advance reward and final reward put together) exceeding Rs 1 lakh. However, in exceptional cases, reward in excess of this limit i.e. above Rs. 2 lakh can be sanctioned to an individual officer, in the Board, on the recommendations of the Reward Section for which proposals may be sent to .....

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..... mmissionerate or the DRI/DGCEI as the case may be, and (iii) An officer of equivalent rank, outside the Commissionerate/Directorate i.e. Addl. or Jt. Commissioner of Customs Central Excise of another local Commissionerate/Nearest Jt. Director(DRI) or Jt. Director (CEI) or Jt. Director (DOL) nominated by Jurisdictional Commissioner/ADG, DRI, ADG, CEI. Above Rs. 10 lakhs upto Rs. 20 l .....

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..... Upto Rs. 5,000/- Jurisdictional Addl. Commissioner/Jt. Commissioner of Customs Central Excise/Addl./Joint director of DRI/CEI Above Rs. 5,000 7 upto Rs. 10,000 Jurisdictional Head of the Department i.e. Commissioner of Customs and/or Central Excise/ADG, DRI/ADG, CEI. Above Rs. 10,000/- 7 upto Rs. 50,000/- A committee comprising: (i) Jurisdictional .....

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..... of the amendment of para 2.1 the reward scheme is extended to the cases of detection of Service Tax evasion. The reward claims to Informers and Govt. Servants in respect of Service Tax cases shall be processed and decided in the same manner as those of Central Excise cases. Accordingly, in the aforementioned letter wherever the word "duty" occurs the same shall be read as "duty/Service Tax". Ple .....

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