Intel slapped with over Rs 27 crore penalty by CCI

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Thursday imposed a penalty of Rs 27.38 crore on the Intel Corporation for abusing its market dominance in the boxed micro processors (BMPs) market in India. The competition regulator said that Intel violated section 4 of the Competition Act by changing its warranty policy in India in April 2016 which entertained warranty requests for its BMPs only when they were purchased from an authorised Indian distributor of Intel. The CCI stated that such separate warranty policy for India versus the rest of the world was arbitrary and unfair towards the Indian market and consumers.