(a): Whether the Government have laid-down guidelines, which provide for
arrest and detention under COFEPOSA for smugglers and tax evaders in cases,
where the value of the goods or the amount of customs duty evaded is above
Rs. five lakhs;
(b): If so, the details of the cases booked by the DRI in Delhi and West
Zone during the last three years, where the arrests and detention under
COFEPOSA have not been resorted to with reasons therefore;
(c): Whether the Government have satisfied itself, that the cases in which
such action has not been taken by the DG, DRI fall within the guidelines
referred to in part
(a) above; and
(d): If not, the action proposed to be taken against the officers who have
acted contrary to the guidelines?