Inspecting warehouses of Amazon and Flipkart in Delhi, the Bureau of Indian Standards found several thousand inferior items. Spanning more than 15 hours on Thursday, the operation aimed at Amazon’s Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area facility and the subsidiary store of Flipkart in Trinagar.
Raid on Amazon Warehouse: More than 3,500 items recovered
Per a Press Information Bureau (PIB) release, more than 3,500 things including water heaters, food mixers, and electronic devices were taken from an Amazon warehouse. Several of these items had fake ISI stickers or did not have the requisite ISI accreditation. Officials put the entire worth of the confiscated items at roughly 70 lakh rupees.
Under BIS scanner also is Flipkart’s Instakart
Officials from BIS also carried out a search of Instakart Services Pvt Ltd, a Flipkart owned in Trinagar. The team discovered a big inventory of sports shoes missing production date information and not meeting ISI standards. Seized were around 590 pairs of inferior sports shoes worth six lakhs.
Countrywide sweep on uncertified products.
These raids are one aspect of a BIS program run more generally to observe quality compliance. Numerous unregulated goods have been confiscated over the last month in several cities, among them Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Lucknow, and Sriperumbudur following identical operations.
As BIS rules dictate, 769 items need compulsory certification. Without a valid BIS license or Certificate of Compliance (CoC) the sale, distribution, storage, import, or display of these objects is expressly prohibited.
