{"id":1119,"date":"2026-05-25T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:25:15","slug":"directorate-of-revenue-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/directorate-of-revenue-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Directorate of Revenue Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Directorate of Revenue Intelligence<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) is the\u00a0<strong>premier intelligence and enforcement agency of the Government of India on anti-smuggling matters<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DRI functions under the\u00a0<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.<\/mark>\u00a0<\/strong>It was constituted in\u00a0<strong>1957.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DRI enforces the provisions of the\u00a0<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Customs Act, 1962<\/mark>\u00a0and over fifty other allied Acts<\/strong>\u00a0including the Arms Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPSA), Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities (COFEPOSA) Act, Wildlife Act, Antiquities Act etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1120\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DRI undertakes\u00a0<strong>collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of intelligence\u00a0<\/strong>relating to<strong>\u00a0smuggling<\/strong>, carries out<strong>\u00a0investigations, adjudication of cases and prosecution\u00a0<\/strong>of the arrested persons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directorate of Revenue Intelligence About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}