HC asks Amazon to respond to Future Retail’s allegations

The Delhi high court Tuesday sought Amazon’s response on a plea by Kishore Biyani led Future Retail Ltd (FRL) alleging that the e-commerce major was interfering in its ₹24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail on the basis of an interim order by a Singapore arbitrator.

Justice Mukta Gupta issued summons to Amazon, Future Coupons Ltd (FCL) and Reliance Retail Ltd (RRL) on the FRL suit and asked them to file their written statements within 30 days.

The court also said that the issue of maintainability of the suit, raised by Amazon, would be kept open.

The order was passed after hearing day-long arguments on behalf of FRL, FCL, Reliance and part arguments by Amazon.