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CCI probe order on Amazon, Flipkart: SC transfers all pending cases to Karnataka HC
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....CI probe order on Amazon, Flipkart: SC transfers all pending cases to Karnataka HC <br>PTI News<br>Dated:- 6-1-2025<br>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Jan 6 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday transferred to Karnataka High Court petitions of Amazon and Flipkart, challenging a Competition Commission of India order for a probe into the e-commerce giants for alleged malpractices. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and ....
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....Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said if pleadings in some of the transferred petitions were not completed, the judge seized of the matter would grant reasonable time to complete the pleadings. "It will be appropriate if all the petitions which are the subject matter of this transfer petition are transferred for hearing to the High Court of Karnataka," the bench said. During the hearing, Attorney General R ....
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....Venkataramani informed the apex court that, after filing of the present petition by fair trade regulator the Competition Commission of India (CCI), five pleas had been filed in different high courts. The top court directed that these petitions be transferred to the High Court of Karnataka. "If similar petitions are hereafter instituted in any other high court, the same shall be also covered by t....
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....his order," the bench said. The apex court had earlier issued a notice on the plea filed by the CCI, which sought the transfer of the petitions filed by the e-commerce giants from the high courts to the top court or Delhi High Court. In its plea before the top court, the CCI sought directions to transfer either to the Supreme Court or Delhi High Court the cases pending before the high courts of ....
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....Allahabad, Madras, Telangana, Punjab and Haryana, Delhi, and Karnataka. The fair trade regulator ordered the probe into Flipkart and Amazon following allegations of malpractices, including deep discounting and tie-ups with preferred sellers on their platforms. The CCI's probe order came after a complaint by the Delhi Vyapar Mahasang, whose members comprise many traders of smartphones and related....
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.... accessories. Amazon and Flipkart filed separate petitions in various high courts, challenging the CCI's probe order. PTI PKS SZM SZM<BR> News - Press release - PIB....