{"id":987371,"date":"2026-01-24T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987371"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:35:28","slug":"shouldnt-be-forced-to-participate-in-unconstitutional-penalty-regime-before-cci-apple-to-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/shouldnt-be-forced-to-participate-in-unconstitutional-penalty-regime-before-cci-apple-to-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#8217;t be forced to participate in &#8216;unconstitutional penalty regime&#8217; before CCI: Apple to HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Tech giant Apple Inc, which is facing probe by anti-trust regulator CCI over allegations of abusing its position on its app store, has told the Delhi High Court that it should not be forced to participate in an &#8220;unconstitutional penalty regime&#8221; that permits penalties based on a company&#8217;s global turnover for indulging in anti-competitive practices. <\/p>\n<p>In a rejoinder filed in its litigation with the regulator, Apple said permitting it to approach the appellate forum, i.e. the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, once any such &#8220;unjust&#8221; penalty is imposed on it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) would mean that &#8220;constitutional harm&#8221; was already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Tech giant Apple Inc, which is facing probe by anti-trust regulator CCI over allegations of abusing its position on its app store, has told the Delhi High Court that it should not be forced to participate in an &#8220;unconstitutional penalty regime&#8221; that permits penalties based on a company&#8217;s global turnover for indulging in anti-competitive practices. In a rejoinder filed in its litigation with the regulator, Apple said permitting it to approach the appellate forum, i.e. the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, once any such &#8220;unjust&#8221; penalty is imposed on it by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}