Flipkart and Amazon challenges court order, allows investigation to resume: CCI antitrust probe

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Walmart’s Flipkart and Amazon.com have documented legitimate challenge against the resumption of an antitrust examination concerning their strategic approaches, as indicated by sources and a legal filing saw by Reuters.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) dispatched an examination in January last year after an accusation on Flipkart and Amazon for advancing selected dealers on their online business platforms and utilizing profound discounts to smother competition.

The organizations have denied doing any kind of iniquity or misdoing and legal challenges from the pair slowed down the examination for over a year until the court last week ruled that it could continue, having excused arguments that the CCI needed proof.

The new appeal from Flipkart documented on June 16, contends that the decision by the Karnataka court to permit the investigation to continue was incorrect and should be required to be postponed. It likewise encouraged the court to subdue the underlying CCI request for the examination.

Two sources who were acquainted with the matter have disclosed that Amazon has also stages to face similar challenges and difficulties. This week, both the tech companies are going to be heard by a two-judge panel, according to the sources.

Flipkart and CCI didn’t promptly react to demands for input. Amazon declined to remark on its appeal.

Few sources revealed to Reuters that CCI wants to accelerated the investigation process as it has expanded its investigation of the big tech organizations. The CCI further is planning to request data from Amazon and Flipkart related to the accusations as early as possible, one source said. Such examinations typically run for a while.

Both Amazon and Flipkart are at present doing combating allegations from offline retailers that their complicated business structures let them bypass foreign investment rules for eCommerce.

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