Protest against Amazon for selling rugs with Golden Temple image

Neeraj Bagga

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Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 21

With no apology coming from Amazon, members of a Sikh organisation held a protest here today against the online retail company for displaying images of the Golden Temple on doormats and rugs listed for sale on its website.

Members of the Jatha Sirlath Khalsa forced closure of Amazon Transportation Services Private Limited at the New Amritsar area and raised slogans against it.

Dilbagh Singh, a leader of the jatha, said they would not allow the office to open until the company tendered an apology. Meanwhile, the SGPC shot off a mail to the company over the matter of desecration after finding no response to its legal notice.

It served a legal notice and lodged a police complaint against Amazon for inappropriately and offensively displaying images of the Golden Temple on some toiletries, doormats and rugs, listed for sale on its website on December 19.

Shiromani Committee Secretary Daljit Singh Bedi asserted that legal course of action would be taken against the company if it did not tender public apology over the blasphemous act.

“The local police have forwarded the complaint of the Shiromani Committee against the multinational company to the Cyber Crime Wing, Chandigarh,” said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police JS Walia.

A spokesperson of Amazon India in a statement to the media issued here today said: “We are working on taking down the said products. All marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don’t, will be subject to action, including potential removal of their account.”