E-commerce firm Shopee, which claims it’s of Singaporean origin and is going through an issue over FDI violations within the nation, has been hit by an FIR filed by a buyer in Lucknow for allegedly defrauding him.
Within the FIR, filed on the Mohanlalganj police station in Lucknow on January 15 and seen by IANS, the complainant, Shashank Shekhar Singh, mentioned that he ordered merchandise on-line from Shopee on December 10, however what he obtained have been duplicate merchandise.
The FIR has named Shopee, its mother or father firm Bengaluru-based SPPIN India Pvt Ltd, and senior firm officers.
In response to Singh, he ordered three merchandise price Rs 840, Rs 399 and Rs 1,299 from Shopee. What he obtained weren’t the merchandise proven on the platform, however their faux variants, accusing the e-commerce platform of defrauding him.
In a press release to IANS, the platform mentioned: “Shopee is a Singaporean firm, not a Chinese language firm, dedicated to serving to Indian small companies thrive by their on-line e-commerce market. The corporate goals to accomplice in India’s digital economic system mission whereas contributing to the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.”
Final month, the Confederation of All India Merchants (CAIT) had urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to ban Shopee, claiming that it’s working in India in opposition to FEMA Guidelines and FDI Press Observe of 2020.
Shopee is an e-commerce large which commenced its operations in India by an entity named SPPIN India Pvt Ltd, held by two holding corporations, SPPIN I Pvt Ltd and SPPIN II Pvt Ltd, each registered in Singapore, the merchants’ physique claimed within the letter.
“These two entities are, in flip, held by one other mother or father firm SPPIN Ltd, registered within the Cayman Islands. This advanced structuring of entities is nothing however an try to hoodwink the Indian authorities,” CAIT Secretary Common Praveen Khandelwal wrote within the letter.
The merchants’ physique additionally accused Shopee of adopting “predatory pricing ways”, thereby distorting competitors out there.
The Delhi Excessive Court docket had in November final 12 months sought the Centre’s to answer on a plea searching for to dam ecommerce web sites and cell apps operated by SPPIN India Pvt Ltd beneath the identify of Shopee.
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