Supreme Court to hear CCI plea on Amazon, Flipkart case on Friday

The Supreme Court will on Friday hear Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) plea for combining two dozen writ petitions filed by various current and former online sellers of e-commerce platforms Amazon and Flipkart, after the competition watchdog informed the apex court that multiple cases in different High Courts could lead to conflicting judgements.

The apex court has listed CCI’s plea to combine the writ petitions filed in different High Courts by companies like Cloudtail India Pvt. Ltd, Appario Retail Pvt. Ltd and Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd for hearing by Justice Abhay S. Oka and Justice Pankaj Mithal, court documents showed.