All About Dons And Smuggling

Anything related to smuggling always hits the front-page headlines, attracting a lot of attention. Various stringent rules by the Indian government could not put a full stop to this financial ill-practice. In his book, ‘DRI & The Dons – The Untold Stories,’ BV Kumar touched upon almost all aspects of smuggling and revealed interesting stories around it. He vividly explained the role of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in curbing smuggling and dealing with offenders. The author made an endeavour through this book to record some of the most important cases detected by various DRI officers at great personal sacrifice. Kumar joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1958 and held various key positions such as the Director General, Revenue Intelligence; Director General and Customs amongst others in his 35 years of service. He stated that smuggling is known as the...