NOTICE TO GOVT ON PLEA OVER E-TAILERS

The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought the Centre’s response to a plea seeking that directions be issued to e-commerce platforms to ensure that products they sell display the name of the manufacturing country. The plea, filed by advocate Amit Shukla, seeks implementation of the Legal Metrology Act 2009 and the rules framed under it , specifically clause 3.2 (ii) of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, which mandates that name of the country of origin be displayed on products being sold. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Centre and e-commerce platforms, including Amazon India, the WalMart-owned Flipkart and Snapdeal, seeking their responses by July 22. The matter will be now heard on July 22.Snapdeal did not respond to the queries. Both Amazon and Flipkart did not respond to repeated calls and texts.