Cyber cell officials have made a list of e-commerce sites where banned products were still available and even a list of those delivering the products to Gujarat and violating the notification
A few days before Uttarayn is celebrated, the Ahmedabad police are gearing up to prevent sale of Chinese tukkal (lanterns) during the festival. On Monday, the city police issued notices to a dozen of e-commerce websites, asking them to stop the sale of the banned products.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner AK Singh on Sunday held a meeting with Rajdeep Zala, DCP, cyber cell with regard to several e-commerce websites still selling banned products such as Chinese Tukkal and Chinese threads online in Gujarat and were violating the notification which was issued by the Ahmedabad commissioner.
Cyber cell officials have made a list of e-commerce sites where banned products were still available and even a list of those delivering the products to Gujarat and violating the notification. During the analyses by the technical team of the cyber cell, 12 e-commerce sites were found delivering banned products to Gujarat. The sites were identified as Patangdori.com, Flipkart.com, Sh-opclues.com, Snapdeal.com, Indiamart.com, amazon.com, mypartyshoponline.com, crazysutra.com, shopping.rediff.com, skylanterngifts.com, paperlanternsindia.com and firstcry.com.
On Sunday evening itself, the cyber cell police issued a notice to all the 12 e-commerce sites to stop the delivery of Chinese Tukkal and Chinese threads to Gujarat. If still, the e-commerce sites continue selling the banned products in Gujarat, the cops will lodge a case against them for violating the notification.
AK Singh, the commissioner, said, "We have already identified the e-commerce sites and have already issued notice to them regarding the matter. If they continue to sell the banned products, we will lodge a complaint agai-nst them."
HC had directed state to ban Chinese lanterns
The Gujarat high court had in December 2015 directed the state government to impose a ban on Chinese lanterns after a PIL was filed by Jivan Rabari. He had argued before the court that the sky lanterns, which were very popular owing to its low cost, had resulted in several fire hazards across Ahmedabad. He had also pointed out that the lanterns also pollute the environment as they are not made of biodegradable materials, adding that the wire-structure of the lantern, if swallowed, can puncture the internal organs of strays. Rabari had also contended that the use of such lanterns was no longer limited to Uttarayan, but was also used in marriage and birthday parties as well.
Chinese lanterns led to several fires
There was an incident registered in the Chandlodia area in 2015 at a motorcycle godown. The fire was brought under control after an hour, but more than 32 bikes were damaged in the fire. Another minor incident was reported near Ahmedabad airport where a lantern fell on dry grass near the Met office and resulted in a fire. It was brought under control in less than five minutes.
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