Corporate Law : This case examines whether borrowing costs should be capitalised using full-year borrowings or only those during the eligible peri...
Corporate Law : The Court’s 2025 ruling upheld CCI’s power to impose structural and personal penalties without a second notice, marking a majo...
Corporate Law : India is moving to regulate Big Tech's anti-competitive practices like predatory pricing, self-preferencing, and data misuse. A ne...
Corporate Law : An analysis of India’s merger control under CCI rules, deal value threshold, key cases, and comparisons with US, EU, and UK fram...
Corporate Law : Explore India’s merger control laws under Competition Act and Companies Act, CCI’s role, key cases and emerging reforms for a ...
Corporate Law : The proposed rules establish a comprehensive conduct framework for CCI employees, including integrity, conflict-of-interest contro...
Corporate Law : Parliament was informed that no antitrust or merger cases originated from Jammu and Kashmir during the year. The key takeaway is t...
Corporate Law : Enforcement activity rose with steady antitrust actions and quicker merger disposals, aided by reduced timelines and streamlined p...
Corporate Law : The competition watchdog has initiated further proceedings over widespread flight disruptions, signaling that the matter merits ex...
Corporate Law : The 2023 Competition Amendment Act strengthens CCI powers, introduces thresholds for high-value deals, and expands anti-competitiv...
Corporate Law : CCI directed investigation into allegations that certain liquor manufacturers and distributors entered into restrictive agreements...
Corporate Law : Allegations of an implied anti-competitive agreement between a regulator and a software provider were rejected. The Commission fou...
Corporate Law : The Commission found no proof that tender conditions excluded competitors or favoured select players. It held that procurement ter...
Corporate Law : The case examined allegations of inflated and discriminatory pricing in supply of a critical railway component. The Commission hel...
Corporate Law : The Commission held that bidders colluded by quoting identical and patterned prices across multiple tenders. It found that such co...
Corporate Law : The CCI held that restricting warranty services in India to products bought from authorised distributors was unfair and discrimina...
Corporate Law : Summary of the Competition Commission of India (Determination of Cost of Production) Regulations, 2025. Details key changes, defin...
Corporate Law : The Competition Commission of India (CCI) notifies new regulations for recovering monetary penalties, detailing procedures for dem...
Corporate Law : CCI penalizes Meta ₹213.14 crore for abusing dominance through WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy update. Cease-and-desist orders an...
Corporate Law : Clause (f) of Section 19 of the Competition Amendment Act 2023 comes into effect on 19th September 2024, as per the Ministry of Co...
CCI imposes a monetary penalty of Rs. 1337.76 crore on Google for anti-competitive practices in relation to Android mobile devices
Ravinder Singh Bawa Vs Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Limited (Competition Commission of India) The moot question that arises for consideration is whether ONGC had sufficiently indicated its requirements upfront while issuing the tender in question so as to enable interested bidders to assimilate and factor such requirements while placing their technical and financial bids […]
Beach Mineral Producers Association Vs IREL (India) Ltd (Competition Commission of India) The Commission notes that, until 1988, beach sand mining was restricted to the public sector owing to coexistence of monazite, a heavy mineral used for the production of thorium. Realising the untapped potential in the beach sand minerals sector, the Department of Atomic […]
Competition Commission notes that allegations of Informant pertain to collective dominance by OPs, which is not recognised under Competition Act, 2002
CCI observes that there must be some autonomy available to the manufacturers to deal with their goods the way they want, in alignment with their business requirements. Nobody can ask for an absolute right to deal with a particular business.
It was alleged that the various associations of Kraft Paper Manufacturers, by way of periodic meetings and correspondences, direct their members (i.e., Kraft Paper Mills) to: (i) increase the price of the paper to be sold to the buyers, i.e., corrugated box manufacturers; and (ii) create a condition of shortage to enforce the unjust price increase and shut the operation of the paper mills in a region collectively.
CCI held that, Punjab Medical Council is well within its jurisdiction to prescribe certain standards, guidelines, etc., for maintaining quality in medical education and practice.
CCH held that sporadic communications between OPs exchanging information, which is already available in public domain, cannot be construed as collusion between OPs.
Rakesh Khare Vs Krishna Engineering Works (Competition Commission of India) CCI issues cease and desist order against firms found guilty of bid rigging and cartelization in tender floated by Eastern Railway The Competition Commission of India (CCI) issued a final order today against eight firms which were found to have contravened the provisions of Sections […]
News Broadcasters & Digital Association Vs Alphabet Inc. (Competition Commission of India) Informant has inter alia levelled the following allegations against Google: 1. Members of the Informant are forced to provide their news content to Google in order to prioritise their weblinks in the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) of Google. Thus, Google free rides […]
