NCLAT allows WhatsApp, Meta to redact confidential data in ₹213 crore penalty judgment

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) allowed a plea from WhatsApp and Meta on Tuesday. They sought to remove confidential commercial information from the tribunal’s 4 November judgment. That judgment had upheld the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) ₹213 crore penalty for abuse of dominance.

According to a report by Live Law, a bench comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Technical Member Arun Baroka ordered that specific portions of the judgment marked as confidential and highlighted in blue in the parties’ submissions be removed from the publicly available version and from certified copies.