Bid rigging to reduce competition or to adversely affect or manipulate bidding process is anti-competitive

COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA South Eastern Railway versus Orissa Concrete & Allied Industries Ltd. Reference Case No. 5 of 2011 FEBRUARY  21, 2013 ORDER UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE COMPETITION ACT, 2002 1. The present reference has been filed under section 19(1)(b) of the Competition Act, 2002 (‘the Act’) by Shri B P Khare, Principal Chief Engineer, South Eastern Railway, Kolkata against the above named entities alleging inter alia contravention of the provisions of section 3 of the Act. 2. Shorn of details, it is averred in the reference that due to increased...