Google fined Rs 936 crore in second antitrust penalty this month

India’s anti-trust regulator, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), on October 25 imposed a penalty of Rs 936.44 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies. The commission has also issued a cease-and-desist order in which the regulator prescribed eight corrective measures that Google Play needs to implement to correct the anti-competitive practices.

This is the second CCI order against Google in the past week. The antitrust watchdog had on October 20 imposed a penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets with its Android mobile operating system (OS), and prescribed a set of about a dozen key measures that the company has to comply with.