A Remote Customs Division - Remarkable Performance
FORBESGANJ Customs Preventive Division (FCPD) plays an important role in securing the Indian borders in North and East. Situated next to the crucial chicken's neck part of country, which joins two huge landmasses of the Indian territory, this Customs (P) Division has a mandate to act as guardian of economic frontier by combating the illicit traffic across the border. Manning 260 kms of Indo-Nepal border across Bihar, this Division matches up to the huge challenge of effectively resisting trafficking and general economic offences on the international boundary which is a hard task given the open nature of this particular border.
Last week, the officers of Customs (P) Division Forbesganj have affected a seizure of 2.49 Kgs (Net) of Heroin (a narcotics drug), recovered from the general compartment of train No.12487Seemanchal Express. Mrityunjay Kumar, Inspector and Rakesh Ranjan, Superintendent displayed a high level of alacrity and efficiency in performing this operation successfully by covertly operating in a jam-packed train compartment.
During the last four months, this Division seized 963 kgs of Ganja, 6.32 kgs of Heroin, 2.7 kgs of Charas and 0.975 kg of heroin in four different cases, with a seizure a month. The value of the seizures is well over ten crores of rupees. Apart from this, the Division played a major role in exposing a network of PDS grains diverters by bringing to light a case of smuggling of BPL quota grains to Nepal. The follow-up by civil authorities has led to the uncovering of huge racket.
The Division is headed by a fresh IRS Recruit Jyotiraditya and has about a hundred employees from Sepoy to Superintendent and comes under the Patna Customs Preventive Commissionerate headed by Kishori Lal as Commissioner.
They are so far away from everywhere that it is very difficult to contact them, but beyond the realms of news, here is a Division, which is doing great work - unheard, unnoticed, but with zeal to perform.