Act against errant e-commerce companies for flouting COVID curbs: Bombay HC
Act against errant e-commerce companies for flouting COVID curbs: Bombay HC
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The court on Tuesday asked the state to immediately take action against the e-commerce companies. Bombay High Court suggests to take serious action against that who are violating the ‘Break the Chain’ orders.

The HC also sought to know reliefs proposed for retail traders. A vacation bench of Justice R D Dhanuka and Justice Madhav J Jamdar heard the plea by the Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association. The plea was filed by advocate Dipesh Siroya, seeking waiver of the property tax, renewal fees and licence fees that are payable by retailers for the lockdown period, starting from March last year. The petitioner organisation said during the pandemic and lockdown like situations, retailers of non-essential items are experiencing heavy losses, financial instability and mass unemployment. Advocate Jamshed Mistry for the Federation said the petitioners’ grievance is that while incentives were given to licensee hawkers and others during the pandemic, no package was announced for the retail traders. The Federation also said that ‘Break the Chain’ order on April 13, were issued only for supply and provision of essential goods and services. But the e-commerce suppliers are violating the directives by selling non-essential goods and services. The HC said the state, if finds any violation, can immediately take action against the errant e-commerce companies for flouting the guidelines. Whie court also asked the state and the BMC to file an affidavit in reply to the petition in two weeks.

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