Government Plans To Take Legal Action Against E-Commerce Giants for Selling Unsafe, Uncertified Products

The Indian government is set to initiate legal action against major e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Myntra, and BigBasket for selling unsafe and uncertified products.

This follows raids by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), where around 15,000 items—including toys, kitchen tools, and electrical goods—were seized from warehouses across multiple cities.

These products lacked mandatory BIS certification or carried fake ISI marks, violating Section 17 of the BIS Act, 2016.

Violators may face penalties including fines up to ten times the product value and imprisonment.