Apologies’ for the long gap ! As per an exclusive recent media report by Reuters , the Indian Antitrust Regulator, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN.O) , opens new tab and Walmart’s (WMT.N), opens new tab Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers on their shopping websites. The…
India joins the western bandwagon in initiating an ex ante regulation of the large digital platforms , the so called “Big Tech”. The Draft Digital Competition Bill, 2023 , has been published by the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on 12th March, 2024 and the MCA has invited stakeholders views for public consultation before…
India’s fair market watchdog, Competition Commission of India (“CCI”), after due consultations, has finally notified the “leniency plus” mechanism to further strengthen cartel detecting framework in India. CCI, in exercise of its powers underpowers conferred by sub- section (1) and clauses (ga),(gb) and (gc) of sub-section (2) of section 64, read with section 46 and…
In a significant legal development, the division bench of the Madras High Court (MHC) vide its judgment dated 19th January 2024, upholding the judgment pronounced by the single bench of the same High Court on 3rd August 2023 , held that the High Court lacks jurisdiction on the original side to admit a civil suit…
The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court, vide its judgment dated July 13, 2023 in Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (PUBL) vs. CCI has revived the old debate for jurisdictional issue between the Controller of Patents and the Fair Market Watchdog, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for determination of the FRAND terms for grant of…
In a significant development , after the Lok Sabha ( Lower house of Indian Parliament ) passed the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2023 on 29.March 2023 , the Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha ( upper house ) on 03 April ,2023 and after receiving the Presidential assent on 11 April 2023 , has been…
Google has tasted another setback in India in its fight with the Antitrust regulator, Competition Commission of India (“CCI/Commission”). The appeal filed by Google against the CCI last order dated 20.10.2022 has been dismissed on merits and, except for some reliefs on some of the market correction directions issued by the CCI in its said…
Lok Sabha , the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on 29.03.2023 passed the much awaited Competition Amendment Bill, 2002 (“the Bill”). The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 05.08.2022 and was referred to Standing Committee on Finance for examination and report thereon on 17.8.2022. The Standing Committee on Finance (under the chairmanship…
Competitive neutrality is the bedrock of modern competition law and the Indian Fair market regulator, the Competition Commission of India (“Commission/CCI”) has been following this principle in most cases and has penalized the errant public sector undertaking (PSU) in the past. Following the said trend, vide its order dated 18.10.2022 the Commission has ordered…
Has Google finally conceded its alleged anti-competitive conduct in India? Or it is a mere delaying tactic to pacify India’s furious Antitrust regulatory regime , which seems to be bent upon teaching Google a lesson or two like those in the European Union and United States . On 25th January 2023, Google announced changes…
