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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)

 

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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Customs and anti-smuggling enforcement: raids and seizure statistics alongside defined search-and-seizure scope for tax investigations. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence investigates offences under the Customs Act, 1962 and the NDPS Act, 1985, reporting yearly statistics for seizures, commercial frauds detected, investigations completed with SCNs, SCNs in outright smuggling, and duty recovered, with value figures applying to seizures and smuggling and duty figures to other categories. The Income Tax Department conducts search and seizure against a defined class of person to bring undisclosed income to tax and does not maintain person- or profession-wise case breakdowns; asset monitoring of officials is handled by their respective departments.