India antitrust body warns staff over unauthorised media contacts, memo shows

NEW DELHI: India’s antitrust watchdog has warned staff in an internal memo not to share any information with the media when they are not authorized to do so, citing a 60-year-old rule that prohibits such interactions, a document shows.

“It has been observed that of late certain information related to the cases (under review) are published/available in the media … this has been viewed very seriously,” the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in an Aug. 20 memo to all staff, which was seen by Reuters.