https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=429856 A neutral e-commerce intermediary that merely facilitates buyer-seller transactions and does not take title to goods is protected by the safe harbour under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 when it satisfies the statutory due diligence requirements. The platform's terms showed that commercial terms, product content and sale obligations belonged to the buyer and seller, not the intermediary, so alleged defects in the goods were attributable at most to the seller. On that basis, the FIR did not disclose the essential ingredients of the offences against the intermediary, and the criminal proceedings were liable to be quashed. en-us Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:21:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=429856 A neutral e-commerce intermediary that merely facilitates buyer-seller transactions and does not take title to goods is protected by the safe harbour under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 when it satisfies the statutory due diligence requirements. The platform's terms showed that commercial terms, product content and sale obligations belonged to the buyer and seller, not the intermediary, so alleged defects in the goods were attributable at most to the seller. On that basis, the FIR did not disclose the essential ingredients of the offences against the intermediary, and the criminal proceedings were liable to be quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=429856