Circular No. 06/2025-Customs

394/08/2017-Commr.(Inv-Cus.)

Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

(Investigation-Customs)

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New Delhi, Dated 04th March, 2025

 

To,

All Pr. Chief Commissioner/ Chief Commissioner, Customs/ Customs (Preventive)/ CGST and Customs Zones, Pr. Commissioner, Directorate of Logistics, Pr. Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence/ Directorate of Goods and Service Tax Intelligence, Webmaster, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs.

 

Madam/Sir,

 

Subject:- Disposal of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)/Drones-reg.

 

Kind attention is invited towards CBIC’s Circular No. 32/2019 dated 20.09.2019 amended by Circular No. 05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 on the above-mentioned subject.

 

2. In partial modification to the said Circular, the following amendments are being made:-

 

(i) Para 4.b. of the said Circular shall be substituted as follows:

 

"All the Drones of all the categories shall be transferred to the warehouses of the following Customs formations, namely, Chennai (Airport), Delhi (IGIA), Kolkata (Airport), Mumbai (Airport) and Bengaluru (Airport & Air Cargo), which shall be the focal Commissionerates for stocking, segregation, joint inspection by all agencies and distribution. For this purpose, all the Customs Zones have been mapped to these focal Commissionerates as indicated at Annexure-A."

 

(ii) Annexure-A of the said Circular shall be substituted by the Annexure appended to this circular as Appendix-I.

 

(iii) Annexure-C of the said Circular shall be substituted by the Annexure appended to this circular as Appendix-II.

 

Yours faithfully

Poonam Bhatt

Deputy Secretary

 

Appendix-I

Annexure-A

 

[CBIC Circular No. 32/2019 dated 20.09.2019 as amended by Circular No. 05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 and Circular No. 06/2025-Customs dated 04.03.2025]

 

Mapping of Customs Zones to the Focal Customs Commissionerates for transfer of confiscated Drones

 

S.No.

Customs / Customs & CGST / Customs

Preventive Zone

Focal Customs

Commissionerates

1.

Chennai, Tiruchirappalli (P), Thiruvananthapuram

(Kochi), Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad

Chennai (Airport)

2.

Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Patna (P)

Kolkata (Airport)

3.

Mumbai-I, Mumbai-II, Mumbai-III, Pune,

Ahmedabad, Nagpur

Mumbai (Airport)

4.

Delhi, Delhi (P), Bhopal

Delhi (IGIA)

5.

Bengaluru

Bengaluru (Airport &

Air Cargo)

 

Appendix-II

Annexure-C

 

[CBIC Circular No. 32/2019 dated 20.09.2019 as amended by Circular No. 05/2024-Customs dated 22.05.2024 and Circular No. 06/2025-Customs dated 04.03.2025]

 

List of Nodal Officers

 

S.No.

Organization

Name of Nodal

Officer

Designation

Contact Details

1

SPG

Shri Parveen Kumar

SSO/Tech

9582304489

spgtech@nic.in

2

CRPF

1. Sh. Dinesh S.A.,

2. Sh. Chandra Shekhar Sharma

1. Assistant

Commandant

2. Deputy

Commandant

011-26108330

3

NSG

Maj Nitin Kumar, IC81972L

Major

9337254660

4

NTRO

Maj DS Sidhu (Retd.)

Dy Chief Aviator

8019500111

5

CISF

1. Sh.Jitender Rana, IPS (Delhi Airport)

2. Shri Deepak Agarwal (Mumbai Airport)

3. Shri Arun Singh (Chennai

Airport)

4. Shri Shiv Kumar Mohanka

(Hyderabad Airport)

5. Shri Manju Nath, IPS

(Bengaluru Airport)

6. Smt. Jayati Ghosh (Kolkata

Airport)

7. Shri Rakesh Choudhary

(Ahmedabad Airport)

8. Shri Santosh Kumar Suman

(Pune Airport)

1. Dy. Inspector

General

2. Dy. Inspector

General

3. Dy. Inspector

General

4. Dy. Inspector

General

5. Dy. Inspector

General

6. Dy. Inspector

General

7. Commandant

8. Commandant

1. 011-49652036

2. 022-26264729

3. 044-22563702

4. 040-66601424

5. 080-22001521

6. 033-39874560/61

7. 079-22853161

8. 020-26683234

6

BSF

Commandant

(NIIE)

Commandant

Room No. 405,4th Floor,

Block-10, CGO Complex,

Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 03

email: niie.bsf@bsf.nic.in

011-24352361, 24360922

Fax: 011-24361794

7

ITBP

Sh. Gautam Kumar (Main)

Deputy

Commandant

9891165180

Sh. P. K. Tiwari (Reserve)

Deputy

Commandant

8527399681

8

Army, Inf Dte / Inf-5

Col. NR Choudhury

Colonel

33821/9671342555

9

O/o JS (Navy and Def Staff), Department of Military Affairs

Cdr V Bharat

Commander

011-

26771392/1311

Fax: 011-

26771367

10

Assam Rifles

Lieutenant Colonel Sumit Vashistha,

General Staff

Officer-1

(Equipment

Management/

Peace

Establishment)

9617626912

11

Indian Air Force

Gr. Captain Muneesh

Sharma (23934- G) Adm

Group Captain

Tele: 011-23010231,

IP-21115946

Mob-9810366020

rakshak.vayuyodha@gov.in

12

Delhi Police

Sh. Sukhraj Katewa

DCP/Security(PM)

8130099021

13

Intelligence Bureau

Sh. Mahakaleshwar Nath

Joint Deputy

Director

8920172776

Geospatial.mha@gov.in

14

Centre for Futuristic

Defence Studies

(CFDS), National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU)

Group Captain Ajay Purandare

(Retd.)

Head, CFDS

groupcaptain.ajaypurandare

@nfsu.ac.in

Dr. Nilay Mistry

Branch Head,

CFDS

nilay.mistry@nfsu.ac.in