HC directs CCI to consider plea challenging Google’s billing policy

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Competition Commission of India to consider on or before April 26 a plea by Alliance of Digital India Foundation challenging Google’s new user choice billing policy permitting the use of third party payment processing services for paid app downloads and in-app purchases on a commission basis.

A single judge bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela after hearing the matter for two days directed, “In view of the above, there is no impediment, legal or otherwise, in directing the CCI to take up the applications under Section 42 of the Act, as filed by the petitioner, for hearing and considering the same in accordance with law on or before 26.04.2023.