Setback for WhatsApp, Facebook as Delhi HC rejects appeal against CCI probe

In a blow to WhatsApp and its parent firm, Facebook, on Thursday a division bench of the Delhi High Court dismissed their appeals against a single judge order rejecting their challenge to a probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the messaging platform’s updated privacy policy of 2021.

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said the single judge’s order was well-reasoned and the appeals were devoid of merits. In April last year, a single judge bench of the high court had refused to interdict the investigation directed by the CCI on petitions moved by WhatsApp and Facebook, now Meta platforms.