Customs - Rewards to Informers - CBEC wants Close Monitoring
IT seems several complaints are being received regarding delay in disbursal of rewards to informers. Board has prescribed a procedure with regard to monitoring of pendency of disbursal of rewards.
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 for the purpose of maintaining a record in relation to the 'information' filed through DRI-I or AE-I. (these are the dreadful FIRs in Customs and Central Excise). All the cases booked on or after 1.4.2005 where reward disbursal to informers is pending as on date shall be entered into the register. 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.
At the end of every month, an abstract of pendency shall be prepared and entered in the register prescribed. 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.
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.
A six monthly report in this regard in the format prescribed shall be submitted by 15th of April and 15th of October every year.
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 by 31.05.2016 positively.
These Circulars are not taken seriously by the field offices.
Circular No., Dated May 03 2016