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The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) carried out search and seizure operations at Amazon, Flipkart, and Techvision International for selling uncertified products, leading to legal action under the BIS Act, 2016.
New Delhi, March 28, 2025
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) carried out search and seizure operations at several warehouse locations of major e-commerce behemoths, including Amazon and Flipkart, to stop the online selling of non-compliant products. The raids happened in Delhi, Lucknow, and Gurugram, among other cities.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), India’s National Standards Body, has cracked down on big e-commerce distributors, seizing thousands of faulty products. Officials investigated Amazon Sellers Pvt Ltd warehouses in Delhi’s Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area for more than 15 hours, seizing a substantial number of low-quality goods. During the operation on March 19, authorities seized almost 3,500 items, including food mixers, geysers, and numerous electrical appliances. Investigators revealed that many of these products either had counterfeit ISI marks or lacked the necessary ISI certification. The entire estimated worth of the confiscated products is over 70 lakh.
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On March 7, 2025, BIS inspectors raided an Amazon warehouse in Lucknow and found 215 toys and 24 hand blenders lacking the necessary BIS certification.
In a second examination, BIS found that Instakart Services Pvt Ltd, a Flipkart subsidiary based in Trinagar, Delhi, had a significant supply of sports footwear that did not fulfil ISI certification norms and lacked precise manufacture date details.
These raids are part of BIS’s larger national effort to uphold quality standards and safeguard consumer rights. Similar crackdowns have been conducted by BIS teams in Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Lucknow, and Sriperumbudur during the past month, resulting in the seizure of multiple subpar goods.
Last week, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) carried out raids on warehouses of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart in Tiruvallur district, seizing a large number of uncertified products being sold without mandatory approvals.
At Amazon’s Puduvoyal warehouse, officials confiscated 3,376 items, including insulated flasks, food containers, metallic potable water bottles, ceiling fans, and toys, all lacking BIS standard marks. The estimated value of the seized goods is ₹36 lakh.
Simultaneously, BIS teams raided Flipkart’s warehouse in Koduvalli, where they seized 286 packs of baby diapers, 36 boxes of casseroles, 26 stainless steel water bottles, and 10 insulated steel bottles—none of which had the required BIS certification.
