Two teams of officials from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Chennai Branch Office, conducted an Enforcement Search and Seizure Raid operation on March 19 at warehouses of leading e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart. During the raids, non-certified insulated flasks, insulated food containers, metallic potable water bottles, ceiling fans, toys, baby diapers, casserole/insulated hotpots, stainless steel water bottles, and insulated steel bottle products were seized, according to a PIB press release.
The raid at Amazon was its warehouse in Tiruvallur. During the search and search operation, 3376 nos. of different products without BIS Standard Mark, including Insulated Flasks, Insulated Food Containers, Metallic Potable Water Bottles, Ceiling Fans, and Toys worth ₹36 lakhs, were seized. The products notified under the above Quality control orders cannot be stored/sold/offered for sale/exhibited for sale without a BIS Standard Mark under a valid BIS licence.
The firm has violated Section 17 of BIS Act 2016 by storing and exhibiting for sale of the above products without BIS Standard Mark in their website www.amazon.in, the release said.
The raid at Flipkart’s warehouse was also at Tiruvallur, in which 286 baby diapers (42 pieces of diaper in each package), 36 boxes of casserole / insulated hotpot, 26 stainless steel water bottles, and ten insulated steel bottle products were seized without the required BIS Standard Mark(ISI).
The firm violated Section 17 of the BIS Act 2016 by storing, selling and exhibiting for sale of the above products without the BIS Standard Mark.
The head of the Chennai Branch Office, G. Bhavani, said in the release that the Bureau of Indian Standards, Chennai Branch Office, would initiate action against the offender. The offence is punishable with imprisonment up to two years or a fine not less than ₹2 lakhs but may extend up to ten times the value of goods or articles produced or sold or offered to be sold or affixed or applied with a Standard Mark or both.
