Competition Commission of India

By Ratnadeep Roychowdhury, Khyati Dalal, Parina Muchhala1   I. Introduction The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2023 received presidential assent on April 11, 2023 to become the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 (“Amendment...

By Sonam Mathur, Shubhang Joshi & Riya Shah1   In April 2023, the Indian Parliament passed the Competition Amendment Act, 2023 (“Amendment Act”), to amend the Competition Act, 2002 (“Competition...

By Dr. Sangeeta Verma1   It may seem obvious and trite that fair and competitive markets are essential for economic growth. Competition is recognized as a catalyst for development and production, as increased competition sharpens incentives to reduce costs and enhance productivity. As we all know, India has completed more than 30 years of truly […]

By G.R. Bhatia and Manav Gupta1   Despite several significant developments in the past few months, there seems to be no end in sight in the WhatsApp privacy policy saga in India. The uncertainty surrounding the policy was recently compounded as the long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill (“PDP Bill”) was unexpectedly withdrawn on 3rd August […]

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday released early findings of an investigation into Google’s app store and its payment system, Google Pay. As Bloomberg reported, it found that Google’s Play Store billing system for app developers is “unfair and discriminatory”.  Back in 2020, Google decided to delay enforcing its 30% commission for app developers in […]

The Competition Commission of India, the country’s chief competition regulator, has ordered an investigation into the “abuse of dominance” by tech giant Google, the Indian Newspaper Society has said in a statement. The outfit, representing various Indian journalism enterprises, has promoted the Commission’s actions. The INS sought fair value for content hosted on Google, stating […]

By Subhomoy Bhattacharjee1   When France and Germany went to war in 1870, a London newspaper pithily remarked “The Liberal Empire goes to war on a mere point of etiquette.” The order issued by the Competition Commission of India2 against Amazon revoking its acquisition of 49 percent in Future Coupons Private Limited (“FCPL”) in 2019 […]

On Wednesday, February 2, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed penalties on five tire manufacturers and a tire makers’ association for indulging in caterlization, reported Mint. The case was initiated by corporate affairs ministry in 2013-14, where it had said that five domestic tire manufacturer which account for 90% of the market share including–CEAT, JK […]

American e-commerce giant Amazon has landed in fresh trouble as Delhi-based Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Friday, January 14, has filed a petition before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeking to block Amazon’s deal to acquire 100% stake in Cloudtail. The traders’ grouping said that it has in its petition provided instances […]

After outlining the relevant clauses of India’s Competition Act and its associated implementing regulation on predatory pricing, this article recounts how the Competition Commission of India has substantially modernised its perspective in just over a decade of enforcement. In an early case, it condemned zero-pricing by a financially powerful firm as an abuse of a […]

By Anisha Chand & Alisha Mehra1   With the ebbing of the pandemic’s second wave, the Indian competition authority (Competition Commission of India (“CCI”)) is back to full throttle. Nearly 50 percent of the CCI’s penalty orders2 since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were issued in the previous three months.3 A common thread in […]

India’s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday, September 8, raided local offices of several vegetable seed companies including a unit of Germany’s BASF in a case related to alleged price collusion, two sources told Reuters. Competition Commission of India (CCI) officials were raiding offices of BASF India and at least three other vegetable seed companies in an operation across […]