CCPA slaps Rs 10 lakh fine on Amazon, Flipkart; Rs 5 lakh on JioMart over unregistered herbicide sales

New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed penalties of Rs 10 lakh each on Amazon and Flipkart, and Rs 5 lakh on JioMart, for selling and advertising an unregistered agro-chemical product called ‘Cyclosinone Herbicide’ on their platforms.

In a separate order dated September 22, the consumer protection regulator directed the three e-commerce companies to immediately discontinue the sale and advertisement of the product, which it found was being marketed without disclosing the chemical name of its active ingredient or its composition.