Supreme Court denies special treatment to CCI over Amazon, Flipkart probe, refuses to transfer petitions
Live MintThe Supreme Court has clarified to the Competition Commission of India that it will “not get special treatment” as the top court refuses to transfer the writ petitions filed in several High Courts challenging its antitrust probe against e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart. The Supreme Court has suggested that all petitions be consolidated with a single judge according to the Karnataka High Court rules instead of being brought to the top court. CCI's plea The Competition Commission of India’s plea had requested the Supreme Court to combine the 24 writ petitions by various sellers of Amazon and Flipkart filed in Karnataka, Punjab and Haryana, Delhi, Madras, Allahabad, and Telangana High Courts to either the SC or the Delhi High Court. “We will be accepting a very dangerous argument that because in one High Court, as per rules, the matter is heard by a single judge, only because in other High Court it is heard by division bench it should come to that High Court,” Justice Oka said.