SME Times News Bureau | 26 Jan, 2022
The Madhya Pradesh government has asked the state police to register an
FIR against officials of e-commerce giant Amazon and its owner for
allegedly selling products having the Indian National Flag imprinted on
them.
"It has come to my notice that our national flag
is used on products being sold by the online e-commerce platform Amazon.
It is intolerable that even it has been used on shoes," said the state
Home Minister Narottam Mishra during a press conference here on Tuesday.
Mishra
said that prima facie, it is a violation of the 'National Flag Code'
and therefore he has directed the Madhya Pradesh Director General of
Police (DGP) to register an FIR against Amazon.
"I have directed DGP to file an FIR against Amazons officials and owner," Mishra added.
This is not the first time that the Madhya Pradesh's Home Minister has directed the police to file an FIR against Amazon.
In
November 2021, Mishra had ordered the filing of an FIR against
officials of Amazon over the suicide of a youth who allegedly obtained
poisonous sulphas (used as an agricultural fumigant and is poisonous)
tablets through the e-commerce site.
Similarly, in another
incident the police in the Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district had
registered an FIR against unnamed officials of Amazon India after
busting a gang that allegedly supplied ganja under the guise of selling
stevia (a natural sweetener) through the e-commerce portal.
