Flipkart resumes sale of fans, books despite MHA’s directives

BENGALURU/NEW DELHI : E-commerce firm Flipkart resumed the sale of electric fans, educational books and stationery items such as pens on Friday after the ministry of home affairs’ (MHA) fresh directive on 21 April, which allowed ‘shops’ of electric fans and books for students to operate.

A senior union home ministry official clarified on Friday that as per the ministry’s earlier orders, electric fans and books for students were “permitted to be sold only in shops in non-containment zones,” with e-commerce firms being “allowed to sell only essential items.”

On 19 April, the MHA had revoked the permission of selling non-essentials by e-commerce firms.