The Consumer Complaint Council (CCC) found the following claims in various categories advertisers to be either misleading or false or not adequately / scientifically substantiated and hence violating ASCI’s Code.
Out of 42 advertisements which complaints were upheld, 8 belonged to the Healthcare category including brands such as Life Cell International, Shathayu Ayurveda, Iqra Herbals, Baljiwan Medicines and Apollo Heart Centre.
In the Education category there were 9 advertisements were upheld of various brands such as Shyamli Institute of Hotel Management, Knowledge Station India, Triumphant Institute of Management Education, CL Educate and Mahendra Education.
7 advertisements in the E-commerce category of Seven Mantras, Snapdeal, Olx India, Koovs, Uber India and One MobiKwik were upheld. There were 3 advertisements were upheld from BhartiAirtelin Telecommunication and broadband category.
Apart from these 15 advertisements in others categories from various brands such as Tata Steel, Honda Cars, KFC Corporation, Colgate-Palmolive India, Times Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation etc. were upheld.
