Supreme Court transfers CCI’s Amazon-Flipkart antitrust probe case to Karnataka High Court

The Supreme Court has transferred to the Karnataka High Court several petitions challenging the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) probe into alleged anti-competitive practices by e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart. On Monday a bench comprising Justice Abhay S. Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan directed the Karnataka High Court to hear the case expeditiously.

The order came after both the CCI and e-commerce sellers on the two platforms agreed to transfer the cases as the Karnataka High Court had already been hearing the matter.