New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has issued notices to six e-commerce entities for allegedly listing and selling prohibited wireless signal jammers and anti-drone equipment in violation of existing laws, an official statement said here on Friday.
The action was initiated after the CCPA took suo motu cognisance of online listings offering anti-drone systems, drone jammers and GPS jammers without mandatory statutory approvals and disclosures.
These devices interfere with wireless communication and navigation signals and are strictly regulated under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933. As per law, the use, possession, sale, purchase, import or advertisement of such jammer...