Amazon gets two weeks to reply to Future plea in CCI

The Supreme Court on Monday gave two weeks to Amazon to file its response to a petition filed by a promoter firm of Future Retail in the Competition Commission of India (CCI), providing the US ecommerce major a breather in a case that the antitrust watchdog was supposed to wind up this week.

The apex court, however, refused to interfere further in the Delhi High Court’s November 16 ruling, which had asked the CCI to dispose of the case within two weeks. The Confederation of All India Traders had approached the high court with a public interest litigation, seeking a direction to the CCI to expedite its ruling in a March application filed by Future Coupons (FCPL).