Karnataka HC to hear CCI petition against Amazon, Flipkart in January

The Karnataka High Court will hear a petition filed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the probe against e-commerce firms Amazon and Flipkart on January 18.

This is a continuation of the matter when the Supreme Court in October declined to entertain the petition filed by CCI seeking to remove Karnataka High Court’s stay on an investigation that the watchdog had ordered against Amazon and Flipkart related to anti-competitive business practices.

This is because the matter had gone back to the Karnataka High Court. The Supreme Court had asked the Karnataka High Court to decide the CCI plea for vacating the stay on the probe against Amazon and Flipkart for the alleged anti-competitive practices. It asked the High Court to decide on the matter within a period of six weeks.