Mumbai: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has filed cases and initiated action on a number of businesses, including the two e-commerce giants in different Indian cities. BIS had raided different warehouses of these companies in Lucknow, Gurugram, and Delhi after the companies did not comply with the standards defined by the government.
For example, on March 7, 2025, BIS conducted a raid on an Amazon warehouse located in Lucknow and seized 215 toys and 24 hand blenders that were being sold without the necessary BIS certification (order of March 28, 2022). This was informed by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
In a similar raid last month (February 2025) at an Amazon warehouse in Gurugram, officials seized 58 aluminium foils, 34 metal water bottles, 25 toys, 20 hand blenders, 7 PVC cables, 2 food mixers, and 1 speaker for being non-certified. The second raid was conducted on a Flipkart godown of Instakart Services Private Limited in Gurugram, where BIS recovered 534 pieces of unmarked stainless steel vacuum-insulated bottles, 134 toys, and 41 speaker sets.
Examining Flipkart and Amazon warehouses revealed that the uncertified products were associated with Techvision International Private Limited. Following the lead, BIS raided two Techvision International premises in Delhi, recovering nearly 7,000 electric water heaters, 4,000 electric food mixers, 95 electric room heaters, and 40 gas stoves. The brands of the consumed non-certified ingredients included DGSmart, Activa, Inalsa, Cello Swift, and Butterfly. Butterfly.
The entities have faced legal action under the BIS Act, 2016. To date, BIS has filed two cases against Techvision International Private Limited. BIS constantly keeps a watch on the market in order to ensure that compliance with quality standards persists even on e-commerce platforms and in the general market.
Some examples of products being examined include household pressure cookers, hand blenders, food mixers, electric irons, room heaters, PVC cables, gas stoves, toys, two-wheeler helmets, switches, sockets, and food packaging material in the form of aluminium foils.
While BIS has made it mandatory for various products, an investigation revealed that several such non-certified products are being sold through e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, Myntra, and BigBasket. Non-certified product—All products without an ISI mark or those with an ISI mark with an invalid license number (CM/L number).