Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized 11,060 prohibited walkie-talkie fashions and 2d-hand onerous disk drives (HDDs) collectively valued at Rs 9.25 crore at Nhava Sheva Port in Navi Mumbai, officials stated.A father-son duo, owners of two Mumbai companies that had imported these goods with out due permissions, had been arrested below the Customs Act, an knowledgeable unlock stated on Saturday.
Consistent with explicit intelligence, a workforce of DRI officials seized Baofeng BF-888S walkie-talkies of Rs 2.5 crore, and 2d-hand HDDs (belief about e-waste) valued at Rs 6.75 crore.
The banned devices were hid amongst miscellaneous electronic products valued at Rs 21 crore. The entire consignment of Rs 30.25 crore from eight containers shipped from China used to be seized for misdeclaration, officials stated.
The Baofeng BF-888S walkie-talkies had been blacklisted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for operating previous permissible frequencies as they are frequently aged for unauthorised dialog, posing a risk to nationwide security. These devices require explicit licences.
Second-hand HDDs can even no longer be imported with out the Directorate Total of Foreign Alternate’s authorisation.
