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The Haripad constabulary successful Alappuzha territory connected Tuesday seized an allegedly illegally imported Chinese drone pursuing a tip-off from Customs (Preventive), Cochin. The seizure was carried retired nether provisions of the Customs Act amid allegations of unauthorised usage of the drone. Customs officials had passed connected circumstantial accusation to the Haripad Station House Officer done the Superintendent of Police, Alappuzha.
Subsequent introspection by Customs officers confirmed that the drone was an illegally imported Chinese-made model, classified arsenic a prohibited point nether the Customs Act, 1962. Its cognition required anterior clearance from the Director General of Civil Aviation. The drone, with a payload capableness of 50 kg, is valued astatine ₹20 lakh.
The Union authorities has banned the import, unauthorised possession, and usage of specified drones, with violations punishable nether the Customs Act, 1962. Further probe is nether way.
