Govt revives tweaks to curb unfair e-tail practices, fix liability

New Delhi The Union government has revived its 20-month-old proposal to protect customers against unfair practices by e-commerce marketplaces such as Amazon and Flipkart by amending consumer protection rules to bar these firms from selling their private labels on their platforms, make them liable for frauds committed by a seller, and prohibit them from having their own logistics chain for supply-chain management, three people aware of the matter said