Delhi High Court Declines To Examine Cartelisation Claims In Tender Dispute, Says Issue Falls Within CCI Domain

The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to examine allegations of cartelisation in a public tender under its writ jurisdiction, holding that such issues require fact-intensive economic analysis and fall within the specialised domain of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). A Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Amit Mahajan dismissed Interlink Foods' challenge to its disqualification from a National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) tender,...

Karnataka High Court Reserves Orders On Pleas Challenging CCI Probe Into Amazon, Flipkart-Linked Sellers

The Karnataka High Court on April 10 reserved its judgment in a batch of writ petitions challenging the scope of the Competition Commission of India's probe into alleged anti-competitive practices by Amazon and Flipkart, particularly the power of the Director General to array additional parties during the investigation.A single-judge bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna, after hearing the parties, reserved the judgment.Senior Advocate K.G. Raghavan, appearing for Rocket Kommerce LLP and related...