BIS Raided 22 Warehouses Of Amazon, Instakart, Blinkit In FY25, Govt Tells Parliament
The searches were conducted at 14 warehouses of Amazon, along with seven of Flipkart arm Instakart and one of Eternal's Blinkit.
The Bureau of Indian Standards found 142 uncertified products in e-commerce market surveillance during financial year 2024-2025, Union Minister of State for the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, B.L. Verma said in a written reply on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha.
The BIS raided 22 e-commerce warehouses across the country in the previous fiscal, with searches conducted at 14 warehouses of Amazon, along with seven of Flipkart arm Instakart and one of Eternal's Blinkit.
Among the raids conducted, there were three search and seizure operations each in the states of Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka and Maharashtra. The BIS conducted two search and seizure operations each in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and one each in Gujarat, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The BIS had procured 344 samples that fell under the mandatory BIS certification, from which 142 were found without valid certification.
A series of enforcement raids have also been conducted on dark stores of e-commerce companies.
In June, NDTV Profit had reported that e-commerce giants including Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, BigBasket, and Myntra will likely face lawsuits for allegedly selling unsafe and non-certified products on their platforms.
Defaulters could be fined up to ten times the value of non-compliant goods sold, and even face imprisonment of up to two years depending on the severity of the violation, people in the know had said.
The action comes after notices were issued to these e-commerce companies, following BIS inspections that uncovered various products—including toys, shoes, baby diapers, kitchen appliances, and electrical equipment—being sold without BIS certification or bearing counterfeit ISI marks. The ISI mark is a mandatory standards compliance symbol for industrial products.
