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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Nov, 2021
In view of some scary incidents in the country's e-commerce business in
the recent past, the US giant Amazon has facilitated the sale of --
marijuana illegally through its portal and banned chemicals in making
bombs. And now the incident of selling poison through the e-commerce
portal of Amazon has shocked the Country. Making a strong protest
against such activities of the Amazon, the Confederation of All India
Traders (CAIT) Wednesday held protests in more than 1,200 cities in over
500 districts of different states of the country.
The protesters
demonstrated the anger and resentment of the trading community by
holding dharna and demonstration and warned Amazon that either they
should make their business model according to the law and rules,
otherwise prepare to tie their sack bed from India. Now the violation of
laws and rules in e-commerce business will not be tolerated, CAIT said,
adding that if no concrete action is taken immediately in this matter,
then the traders of the country will organise -- 'Bharat Vyapar Bandh'
to raise their voice. The CAIT also said that Amazon's love &
affection towards the sale of marijuana is evident from the fact that it
has asked the US government to legalise the sale of marijuana.
CAIT
has demanded that the business model of Amazon and other e-commerce
companies should be investigated in a time-bound manner. While like the
arrest of Aryan Khan in a drug case, the Amazon officials should also be
arrested in the same way and a sedition case should be registered
against Amazon for facilitating the sale of chemicals in the Pulwama
attack.
CAIT has also said that since this issue has taken an
inter-state shape, the Union Government should depute its agencies to
investigate the case in a time-bound period and the guilty persons
should be punished as per the law and till then the operations of Amazon
portal should be kept suspended.
CAIT National President B.C.
Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said that according to
the information received on Tuesday, a person in Indore city of Madhya
Pradesh lodged a complaint against Amazon to the Indore Collector in MP
stating that his son had three months ago ordered poison through Amazon
which was made available he committed suicide.
Prior to that the
MP Police seized 21 kg and 17 kg of marijuana through two different
operations whereas on the information of MP Police, the Vishakhapatnam
police has also seized 48 kg of marijuana facilitated by a sale through
Amazon portal. It is very surprising that in 2019, through Amazon's
portal, the sale of the chemical of the bombs used in the Pulwama terror
attack, including the banned chemical, was also facilitated through
Amazon's e-commerce portal but so far no action has been taken against
Amazon officials, CAIT said.
Bhartia and Khandelwal said that
illegal activities are going on such a large-scale, but till now
everyone is sleeping which poses a big question on the functioning of
the Governments and the administrative system. It appears that for the
mighty and the big companies the rules are different and for an ordinary
people, the law is different. These companies are having some sort of
protection from the political fraternity.
Bhartia and Khandelwal
said that these incidents are not new as the CAIT and others have been
making complaints against the misdeeds of big e-commerce companies since
2016, but no concrete action has been taken so far. It is highly
regrettable that this sensitive issue has been in the headlines since
last one week, but no statement has come from the Central Government or
State Governments except Madhya Pradesh Government though the retail
trade falls under the domain of State Governments.
There is
tremendous anger and resentment among the traders of the country
regarding this discrimination and if the government does not act now and
prompt action is not taken, then the traders of the traders will be
forced to call for a nationwide movement, CAIT said.
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