MRP of products, PIL filed in the High Court seeking to provide seller details on e-commerce website

New Delhi, 24 January 2021 Sunday

A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking an order from e-commerce websites to clearly show the name of the manufacturer of any item, the country of origin of the product and its MRP, the application is likely to be heard next week.

It claims that consumers are facing a lot of hassles by not mentioning these details on e-commerce platforms, said petitioner and Ghaziabad resident Ajay Kumar Singh, who regularly makes purchases through e-commerce websites. He said he did a lot of research and found that e-commerce rule, 2020 and statutory measurement rule, 2011 were not being followed.

He said if this e-commerce website continues to mention MRP, vendor details, name of the country of manufacture, country of origin of the product, it will hurt the economy of the entire nation. As not displaying MRP of any item will force the consumer to buy more expensive items as determined by the seller, the PIL states that important rights of the consumer are being violated as they are not aware of the seller at the time of purchase.

The application Rajesh K. Filed through Pundit, it claims that a large number of people are being harmed by not making such notifications available on e-commerce platforms.

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