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India seizes goods from Amazon, Flipkart warehouses amid crackdown

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Product certification agency says items did not meet quality control standards

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Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are the dominant players in India's e-commerce market. © Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -- India's state-run product certification agency said it raided the Delhi warehouses of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart this month, seizing items that did not meet quality control standards, as it increased its scrutiny of the two firms.

Last week, the Bureau of Indian Standards conducted similar searches at the companies' warehouses in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, saying they stored, sold and exhibited items that did not have a required standards label.

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