Traders’ physique, Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) held demonstrations throughout the nation to register protest Amazon over the alleged sale of medicine on the e-commerce platform. CAIT can also be protesting in opposition to the GST Council current hikes in GST charges for textile on footwear.
In a tweet, CAIT stated that the demonstration is supposed to register protests in opposition to Amazon for allegedly promoting medication and bomb-making chemical compounds on their platform.
The merchants’ physique additionally accused Amazon of promoting marijuana price over Rs 1 crore and incomes a fee. CAIT stated that by promoting Marijuana, Amazon had contravened Section 20 (b) of the NDPS Act.
:@CAITIndia can be holding PROTEST DHARNA throughout 500 Districts Pan- India tomorrow twenty fourth November against- A. Amazon for- 1.Selling Drugs on their platform.2.Selling chemical compounds used for making bombs in Pulwama Attack.
B. GST council for hike in charges for textile & footwear. pic.twitter.com/UPBxPno7DH
— Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) (@CAITIndia) November 23, 2021
Speaking to Outlook, CAIT’s nationwide president BC Bhartia stated that authorities must also include a codified regulation for e-commerce. The merchants requested the federal government to conduct an intensive investigation of the enterprise mannequin of the e-commerce platforms in order that no sale of prohibited objects or anti- nation actions are carried out on the platform.
Just a couple of days in the past, Madhya Pradesh police had busted a racket promoting marijuana by means of Amazon. The police group seized almost 22 kg from the accused who had been residents of Bhind. The FIR filed on this case additionally talked about government administrators of ASSL Amazon as accused.
Investigations revealed that the accused had fashioned an organization named ‘Babu Tex’ and registered it on Amazon as a vendor. This firm was then used to provide marijuana to pick out prospects in Andhra Pradesh.
This will not be the primary time that CAIT has urged the federal government to take motion in opposition to e-commerce giants like Amazon and Flipkart. In June this yr, the dealer physique had approached the federal government to revisit the overseas direct funding norms for e-commerce gamers.
CAIT accused e-commerce platforms of resorting to malpractice and stated that they targetted small merchants. CAIT’s nationwide secretary-general, Praveen Khandelwal stated that guidelines must be utilized equally to small merchants and such platforms who handle to get a free go on many situations
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