'Sellers may submit false declarations': Why CCPA penalised Amazon, Flipkart, JioMart for selling unregistered herbicide

India's Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined three e-commerce platforms for selling as well as advertising a herbicide called 'Cyclosinone Herbicide', which is unregistered, on their platforms.Amazon and Flipkart have been fined ₹10 lakh each for selling the product on their platforms while JioMart has been fined ₹5 lakh.The consumer protection regulator issued a separate order on 22 September in which it directed the three platforms to immediately stop selling and advertising the product on their platforms, which the…