Earlier this week, officials conducted a search and seizure operation at the warehouse of Amazon Sellers Pvt Ltd, located in the Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area in Delhi.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe operation lasted over 15 hours, during which more than 3,500 products\u2014both without an Indian Standards Institute (ISI) mark and bearing fake ISI labels\u2014were seized,\u201d stated a release from the department.<\/p>\n
The seized goods, including geysers, food mixers, and other electrical appliances, were valued at around Rs 70 lakh.<\/p>\n
The National Standards Body of India is part of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). <\/p>\n
In a separate raid at the warehouse of Instakart Services Pvt Ltd\u2014a subsidiary of e-commerce platform Flipkart\u2014located in Trinagar, officials found a stock of sports footwear packaged for dispatch without the mandatory ISI mark and date of manufacture.<\/p>\n
\u201cApproximately 590 pairs of sports footwear, worth around Rs six lakh, were seized during this operation,\u201d the release added.<\/p>\n
Over the past month, BIS has carried out similar enforcement actions across multiple cities including Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Lucknow, and Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. These operations have resulted in the seizure of various non-compliant consumer items.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, BIS seized 215 toys and 24 hand blenders lacking mandatory certification from an Amazon warehouse in Lucknow. Last month, another raid at an Amazon warehouse in Gurugram led to the seizure of 58 aluminium foils, 34 metallic water bottles, 25 toys, 20 hand blenders, seven PVC cables, two food mixers, and one speaker\u2014all uncertified. <\/p>\n
Similarly, at a Flipkart warehouse in Gurugram operated by Instakart Services Pvt Ltd, BIS seized 534 stainless steel vacuum-insulated bottles, 134 toys, and 41 speakers, none of which had valid certification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese raids are part of the Bureau of Indian Standards\u2019 ongoing efforts to enforce compliance with quality standards for consumer protection,\u201d the release further stated.<\/p>\n
Currently, 769 products have been notified for compulsory certification. The manufacturing, import, distribution, sale, hiring, leasing, storing, or exhibition for sale of these products without a valid licence or Certificate of Conformity (CoC) from BIS is prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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