https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468070 Bid rigging in soil testing tenders was established on coordinated conduct such as cover bids, fake invoices, false experience documents, common IP addresses, linked login credentials, and consistent bidding patterns, with admissions supporting cartelisation. Conduct falling within Section 3(3) attracted a presumption of appreciable adverse effect on competition, and the material was sufficient to sustain the finding of contravention. Proprietors and directors were also held liable because they actively organised, directed, and facilitated the anti-competitive bidding and controlled the affairs of their enterprises. The penalty based on average turnover and income was sustained, as a nil tender-specific turnover approach would undermine deterrence in a deliberate bid-rigging case. en-us Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:22:34 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468070 Bid rigging in soil testing tenders was established on coordinated conduct such as cover bids, fake invoices, false experience documents, common IP addresses, linked login credentials, and consistent bidding patterns, with admissions supporting cartelisation. Conduct falling within Section 3(3) attracted a presumption of appreciable adverse effect on competition, and the material was sufficient to sustain the finding of contravention. Proprietors and directors were also held liable because they actively organised, directed, and facilitated the anti-competitive bidding and controlled the affairs of their enterprises. The penalty based on average turnover and income was sustained, as a nil tender-specific turnover approach would undermine deterrence in a deliberate bid-rigging case. Case-Laws Law of Competition Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=468070