The Supreme Court yesterday said it will examine whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had the jurisdiction to entertain the plea by flat owners in three DLF residential complexes in Gurgaon who alleged that the real estate giant was exploiting its dominant position on conditions for pro...

The Supreme Court Friday asked DLF to deposit the balance Rs.480 crore of a total Rs.630 crore penalty imposed on the realty major by the fair trade regulator CCI for allegedly exploiting its dominant position, after Harish Salve yesterday promised that the company would pay Rs 100 crore into court ...

Real estate giant DLF Thursday deposited Rs 100 crore with the Supreme Court registry - a part of Rs 630 crore penalty imposed on it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for allegedly exploiting its dominant position to the disadvantage of its customers in three projects in Gurgaon. Senior c...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected a petition seeking strictures against the core Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) committee.

A Supreme Court bench of justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana told real estate developer DLF that it should deposit with the court the entire penalty of Rs 630 crore that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed on it in 2011, pending the outcome of its appeal against the Compet...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined 14 car manufacturers Rs 2,554 crore for having “imposed absolute restrictive covenants” with authorised dealers and local original equipment suppliers (OES), and “completely foreclosed the aftermarket for supply of spare parts and other diagnostic ...

DSK Legal partner Balbir Singh, who was appointed as one of six law firm lawyers to the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) external panel in September 2012, has resigned from the panel. Delhi partner Singh said that the panel appointment was ordinarily for three years but that he had decided to...

P&A Associates has won yet again in the Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) for its clients MCX against Amarchand representing the National Stock Exchange (NSE), after NSE appealed the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) 2011 order against it . The Compat agreed with the CCI that the NS...

Amarchand Mangaldas lost steady client Adani Gas’ case in the Competition Commission of India which fined the company Rs 25.67 crore ($4.3m) on the complaint of the Faridabad Industries Association (FIA). FIA was advised by advocate Sharad Gupta. Amarchand Mumbai competition partner Nisha Kaur Ubero...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined British travel major Thomas Cook and Sterling Holiday Resorts a “nominal” Rs 1 crore, for failing to notify the CCI before Thomas Cook acquired shares in Sterling. The CCI stated in its 21 May order , which was published on the CCI’s website today: “In...

The Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) upheld for the owners’ associations of luxury housing projects over the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) Rs 630 crore penalty on real estate giant DLF.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined real estate developer DLF Rs 2.41 crore under section 42 of the Competition Act for violating an earlier order of the CCI under section 27, ordering DLF to stop imposing unfair conditions in its agreements with flat buyers in its Magnolia developme...

The Competition Commission of India order fining Google Rs 1 crore for not cooperating with its anti-trust investigation has just been published by the CCI.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined Google Rs 1 crore for not complying with “instructions” to furnish documents in the investigation against it, a CCI spokesperson told Mint . Google is facing a complaint by Matrimony.com and the Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) for allege...

The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat) has rejected an appeal by Jitendra Bhargava, a former executive director Air India, who complained that the Competition Commission had cleared the merger between the two airlines without a detailed assessment.

A Coimbatore company alleges that JCB India and another construction equipment maker served it with a ex parte injunction from the Delhi high court in 2011. Now the company is asking the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for a cease and desist against “predation through abuse of judicial process...

Chandigarh pink slips 79 kin-counsel : The Chandigarh administration has shown the door to 79 empanelled advocates who were the kin of advocate generals, a judge, and union law minister Kapil Sibal. Now around 30 counsel are left on the UT administration’s panel [ Hindustan Times ] Madras HC on SMS ...

Multi-million rupee job scam in Madras HC : A brother and husband to two Madras HC employees masterminded a multi-crore fake appointment letter scam at the Madras HC with 300 aspirants to posts of junior assistant, driver, office assistant and sweeper in the HC paying him between Rs 2 – 4 lakh each ...

The CCI has fined Mumbai’s Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital with a Rs 3.81 crore fine for entering into an anti-competitive agreement with a stem cell bank.

Delhi HC pecuniary enhancement clears another hurdle : The Delhi High Court (Amendment) Bill, 2014 which seeks enhance the Delhi HC’s pecuniary jurisdiction from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 2 crore, and which was a cause of Delhi HC bar protests , is now in the Rajya Sabha [ PTI ] PIL vs anti-activist NGT bar ...