Flipkart files separate plea challenging CCI probe, jurisdiction

BENGALURU : Flipkart has filed a petition before the Karnataka high court, challenging an investigation into e-commerce firms by the antitrust regulator following allegations of predatory pricing and preferred treatment to certain sellers.

The Walmart-owned company’s petition, reviewed by Mint, comes just two weeks after Amazon’s plea against the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) January order initiating the probe against e-commerce firms for alleged misuse of their dominant positions. The high court on 14 February granted an interim stay on the probe and asked all parties to file their views within eight weeks.

Flipkart, which is a respondent in the Amazon-CCI case, has now filed a petition in the court questioning CCI’s action.