Indian Police Charge Amazon Executive Directors For Running Online Marijuana Smuggling Racket
The Indian Police has charged Amazon executive directors for running an online marijuana smuggling racket. Investigation found that around a tonne of ganja worth over Rs. 1.10 crores was in distribution via online shopping platform Amazon over the past four months.
Amazon find themselves in hot water yet again as a new case has been registered by the Bhind police in Madhya Pradesh accusing the e-commerce giant for the online supply of Marijuana which resulted in a week long investigation and arrests of two accused.
The case against the tech giant has been registered under section 38 of the NDPS Act per multiple sources. Reports claim to have the executive directors of Amazon India to be booked by the authorities as well.
Twenty packets of the illegal drug was claimed to have been hidden mid transit by Amazon.
A case has been filed against Amazon under the NDPS act for supplying Ganja in Madhya Pradesh. @ManojSharmaBpl shares details with @shreyadhoundial pic.twitter.com/eS29h2fK9A
— News18 (@CNNnews18) November 20, 2021
The tech giant is proving to be quite difficult to deal with and uncooperative with the authorities over the matter as stated by the state Home Minister Narottam Mishra.
“There are no guidelines for online businesses. We’ll make guidelines for MP. Amazon was called but they’re not cooperating. We will bring them. I appeal to Amazon’s MD-CEO to cooperate or else we’ll initiate action.”
As a result of this, the police force were compelled to issue a 20-point notice to Amazon.
Ganja consignment being delivered via Amazon busted in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh | Bhind Police makes e-commerce company Amazon India's Executive Directors accused in the matter under NDPS Act: Bhind SP Manoj Kumar Singh
— ANI (@ANI) November 20, 2021
Madhya Pradesh police had busted an online marijuana smuggling racket and arrested two suspects in Bhind district in relation to the case earlier.
A later investigation found that around a tonne of ganja worth over Rs. 1.10 crores was in distribution via online shopping platform Amazon over the past four months.
Amazon executives were demanded to explain on how their platform was exploited for the sales of banned substances by the Bhind district police superintendent, Manoj Kumar Singh.
The two accused – Suraj alias Kallu Pavaiya from Morar in Gwalior and Pintu alias Bijendra Singh Tomar from Bhind district had FIR’s filed against them on the 13th of November. A complaint lodged against both by Ashish Yadav eventually led to the FIR lodged under the 29 NDPS Act.
Last month, US Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon Inc and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India.
Internal documents has exposed how Amazon deployed a secret strategy to bypass Indian laws by frequently changing its corporate structure and killing small businesses by illegally favoring a handful of companies it had stakes in.
Amazon was being investigated for crushing Startups by investing in them to steal their proprietary information and business ideas for launching competitors.
Meanwhile, Amazon is recruiting 26 former FBI agents in order to provide security from and smash the workers unions. The tech-giant is employing services of specialists to collect and monitor information on organized labor.
Currently, the company is facing one of the largest union pushes with more than six thousand employees in the Amazon Birmingham facility voting to form a union.
Meanwhile, Naukri.com founder Sanjeev Bikchandani has just confirmed what GreatGameIndia has been warning since the beginning – about the dangers of Foreign Direct Investment in India.
Bikchandani said foreign funds are the new East India Company that are colonising successful startups in India by transferring ownership overseas to skip Indian regulations and taxes.
- Source : GreatGameIndia
