CBEC to issue biometric cards to custom house agents

The Central Board of Excise and Customs CBEC on Saturday said that custom house agents would be issued bio-metric cards to check fraud.

Bio-metric smart cards will be issued first in Mumbai in all the three Customs zones. Once this is rolled out,a fraudulent person will not be able to file the documents anywhere in the city as his fingerprint will not match and his photo will be flashed across all zones. Also,a wrong person cannot take delivery of the cargo,so this will reduce the incidences of frauds, CBEC chairman SK Goel told reporters here.

He said there were about 10 cases of fraud involving contraband selling of red sandalwood,which prompted this initiative.