E-Commerce Sector In India – An Overview Of Legal Framework

E-commerce is an online based business model which have been set up for providing the consumers an online market portal used by people for buying and selling the products and the services. The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 defines, the term as, "buying or selling of goods or services including digital products over digital or electronic network." Thus, e-commerce usually functions using a lot of electronic services itself like the internet services, electronic funds transfer services, electronic data exchange etc. Since in India a large percentage of products and services are availed through electronic means in an online environment (especially in the present pandemic / lock – down ridden world), the laws that govern its functioning to keep checks and balances are to be oriented.