Suspect containers cleared mysteriously at Mumbai docks

Customs officers and intelligence agencies are stupefied by the mysterious clearing of containers, in violation of rules, from the Mumbai docks despite a hold being placed by the National Customs Targeting Centre (NCTC). The NCTC’s analytics and risk management cell had notified Customs at the docks to put as many as 85 suspect containers on hold in December, but many of them were cleared and allowed to leave without a thorough examination.