• According to Delhi Police, Flipkart's answer did not meet their expectations.
• The selling of acid in India has been outlawed by the Supreme Court.
• Delhi was the scene of the acid assault on December 14.

Due to allegations that acid was being sold on Flipkart's website despite the Supreme Court's ban on the chemical, Delhi Police has questioned the company's executives. The police served a notice to Flipkart on December 15 after the main suspect in an acid attack on a girl in Dwarka, Delhi, claiming he bought the substance there.

 The police assert that they were dissatisfied with the company's reaction after questioning the officials on Wednesday. The organisation responded to the notification by claiming that the acid was sold by a business situated in Agra. The police say that it will be decided later if they will be interrogated again. 

On August 30, 2013, the home ministry issued a recommendation on 'Measures to be done to prevent acid attacks on persons and for treatment and rehabilitation of survivors' in compliance with the Supreme Court's instructions in the matter of Laxmi vs. Union Of India & Ors.

 The home ministry had urged all states and union territories should act right once to put the recommendations for reducing acid attacks and treating and rehabilitating acid attack victims into effect. According to Section 2(9) of the Consumer Protection Act of 2019, 'consumer rights' include the right to protection from the marketing of commodities, products, or services that pose a risk to life and property. 

According to the ministry, the sale of highly corrosive chemicals in a simple, open, and uncontrolled manner by the online marketplace company without any kind of due diligence can have disastrous effects on customers, particularly the weaker members of society like women and children.