Play Store policies: CCI lands second blow, Google fined Rs 936 crore

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday slapped a penalty of Rs 936.44 crore — the second in a span of seven days — on search engine giant Google for “abusing its dominant position with respect to its Play Store policies”.

The regulator has issued a cease-and-desist order, suggesting eight corrective measures including providing access to third-party billing payment processing systems on its Play Store.

The CCI has given 30 days to implement the corrective measures and modify its conduct.

This comes after the CCI imposed a Rs 1,337-crore penalty on Google last week, citing a similar abuse of its dominant position “in multiple markets of the Android ecosystem”.