{"id":966272,"date":"2025-10-06T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966272"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:14:20","slug":"flipkart-amazon-face-centre-probe-for-charging-%e2%82%b9100-platform-fee-union-minister-promises-strict-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/06\/flipkart-amazon-face-centre-probe-for-charging-%e2%82%b9100-platform-fee-union-minister-promises-strict-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipkart, Amazon face Centre probe for charging \u20b9100 platform fee, Union minister promises strict action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Prahlad Joshi on Friday said that the Department of Consumer Affairs is probing into complaints made by several customers against e-commerce platforms for imposing arbitrary fees on orders.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the practice a \u201cdark pattern\u201d that \u201cexploits customers\u201d, Joshi in a post on X said that strict action will be taken against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Prahlad Joshi on Friday said that the Department of Consumer Affairs is probing into complaints made by several customers against e-commerce platforms for imposing arbitrary fees on orders. Calling the practice a \u201cdark pattern\u201d that \u201cexploits customers\u201d, Joshi in a post on X said that strict action will be taken against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}