HC refuses to halt CCI probe against Amazon, Flipkart

The Karnataka high court (HC) on Friday quashed separate petitions by Amazon India and Flipkart against the investigation by antitrust Competition Commission of India (CCI) into alleged anti-competitive practices.

“The appeals are devoid of merit, and deserve to be dismissed,” said a two-judge bench of Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and Nataraj Rangaswamy.

A single-judge bench at the Karnataka HC on June 11 had dismissed a writ petition by the two e-commerce giants challenging the CCI probe into their business practices, ordered in January 2020.

The following week, the companies filed separate with a division bench at the Karnataka HC, challenging the earlier decision, and arguing that the case wasn’t heard on merit.