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03-05-2016
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| Notification No: |
Customs Circular No. 15/2016
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| Issuing Authority: |
Indian Customs
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| Type: |
Circular
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| File No: |
F. No. 13012/08/2015-Cus (AS) |
| Subject: |
Regarding Instructions on monitoring of pendency in disbursal of rewards to informers
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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
(Anti-Smuggling Unit)
Circular No. 15/2016-Cus.
New Delhi, Dated the 03rd May, 2016
To
All Principal Chief/Chief Commissioners
All Principal Directors General/Directors General
Web Master, CBEC
Madam/Sir,
Subject: Instructions on monitoring of pendency in disbursal of
rewards to informers- reg.
Kind reference is invited to Circular No. 20/2015 dated 31.7.2015. In this
regard, Para 7.2 of the said Circular stipulated that Commissioners and
Additional Directors General should set in place a suitable mechanism to monitor
cases becoming ripe for disbursal of rewards and emphasized the need to review
cases of reward to Government Servants and informers which have become ripe for
processing by holding quarterly meetings. This was to ensure that rewards to
informers are disbursed when due without any delay.
- However, several complaints are being received regarding delay in disbursal
of rewards to informers. The matter was discussed in the last Conference of
Chief Commissioners of Customs/Directors General, held in January 2016 wherein,
it was decided to inter-alia put in place a suitable mechanism in the field
formations to monitor cases becoming ripe for disbursal of reward.
- In this background, the Board has decided to prescribe the following
procedure with regard to monitoring of pendency of disbursal of rewards.
3.1. Each Commissionerate in the field and each Zone in the Directorates of
Revenue Intelligence and Central Excise Intelligence shall have a register in
the format prescribed in the Annexure - I (Register of Rewards-Informers) for
the purpose of maintaining a record in relation to the `information' filed
through DRI I or AE-I. All the cases booked on or after 1.4.2005 where reward
disbursal to informers is pending as on date of issue of this circular shall be
entered into the said register. This exercise shall be completed within three
months of issue of this Circular. Adequate care shall be taken not to leave or
miss out any case while maintaining this record. It shall be the responsibility
of the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner in charge of rewards in the respective
formation to ensure and certify that all the pending cases have been entered
into the register.
3.2. At the end of every month, an abstract of pendency in the format given at
Annexure - II shall be prepared and entered in the register prescribed above.
The abstract so prepared shall be certified by the Deputy/Assistant Commissioner
in charge of rewards and put up to the Additional/ Joint Commissioners concerned
for information.
3.3. The `Register of Rewards- Informers' shall be put up to the Principal
Commissioners/Commissioners concerned once in six months (in the first weeks of
October and April) for information.
3.4. A six monthly report in in this regard in the format prescribed at
Annexure-III shall be submitted by 15th of April and 15th of October every year
by:
i. all the Chief Commissioners of Customs to the Director General of Revenue
Intelligence (DGRI) and
ii. all Chief Commissioners of Central Excise/Service Tax to the Director
General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI).
The DGRI and DGCEI in turn along with the reports received from their respective
Zonal Units shall maintain consolidated information for all formations of CBEC.
3.5. Adequate care shall be taken by the field formations to maintain
confidentiality and to ensure that while building/maintaining the information,
informers are not exposed at any cost. Even while submitting the six monthly
reports, no case detail shall be given in such reports; only the pendency
numbers shall be furnished.
- The monitoring system as stipulated above shall be put in place immediately.
All the Chief Commissioners are requested to send a compliance report to the
Board [Commissioner (RI &I)] in the proforma given inAnnexure IV by 31.05.2016
positively.
- Hindi version follows.
(M. G. Thamizh Valavan)
Director (Anti Smuggling)
F. No. 13012/08/2015-Cus (AS)
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