{"id":986132,"date":"2026-01-17T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986132"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:42:54","slug":"facebook-parent-meta-amazon-flipkart-among-online-shopping-sites-facing-44-lakh-fine-for-selling-illegal-walkie-talkies-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/facebook-parent-meta-amazon-flipkart-among-online-shopping-sites-facing-44-lakh-fine-for-selling-illegal-walkie-talkies-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook-parent Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, among online shopping sites facing 44 lakh fine for selling illegal walkie-talkies in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, among online shopping sites facing 44 lakh fine for selling illegal walkie-talkies in India \u200bThe Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has reportedly imposed penalties totalling Rs 44 lakh on eight e-commerce platforms. The list of online shopping platforms includes Amazon, Flipkart, Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Meesho, and others, which are listing and selling unauthorised walkie-talkies in violation of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and telecom laws.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PTI report, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said the authority imposed penalties of Rs 10 lakh each on Meesho, Meta (for Facebook Marketplace), Flipkart, and Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook-parent Meta, Amazon, Flipkart, among online shopping sites facing 44 lakh fine for selling illegal walkie-talkies in India \u200bThe Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has reportedly imposed penalties totalling Rs 44 lakh on eight e-commerce platforms. The list of online shopping platforms includes Amazon, Flipkart, Meta (the parent company of Facebook), Meesho, and others, which are listing and selling unauthorised walkie-talkies in violation of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and telecom laws. According to a PTI report, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said the authority imposed penalties of Rs 10 lakh each on Meesho, Meta (for Facebook Marketplace), Flipkart, and [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986132","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=986132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}