DRI seizes China made fire crackers in Delhi

China-made fire crackers worth nine crore rupees have been seized in Delhi by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, DRI. The illegally imported fire crackers were seized yesterday from six big containers at Inland Container Depot in Tughlaqabad.

Principal Additional Director General of the DRI Debi Prasad Dash said the goods were mis-declared as medical equipment for disabled persons



and as bicycle parts. As per norms, the import of fire crackers is restricted.

The fire crackers can be imported only against a license issued by the Chief Controller of Explosives. The fire crackers had been imported by a Punjab-based importer allegedly using a dummy import-export code in connivance with a Delhi-based customs broker. Both of them were arrested, Dash said.