COMPAT Upholds CCI's Penalty On DLF

India’s proposed Digital Competition Law has evolved through several stages, from the 2022 Parliamentary Committee report and the 2024 Committee on Digital Competition Law’s draft Bill, through a 2025 government reconsideration, to renewed Parliamentary backing for an ex-ante framework in August 2026. Drawing on comparative experience from the EU, UK, and Japan, this article argues that legislative reform must be matched by a strengthened Competition Commission of India if ex-ante regulation is to work in practice.

On 20 May 2025, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) issued revised Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), providing essential clarifications to the updated merger control framework...

The Competition Commission of India ("CCI") had on October 20, 2022, passed an order against Google LLC and Google India Private Limited ("Google") directing Google...

On 13 July 2026, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed penalties exceeding ₹142 crore on HP India and several reselers under Section 27 of the Competition Act, 2002 (Competition Act) for cartelisation and bid rigging in the sale and supply of HP personal system products, including laptops, desktops, workstations and accessories (Computers Case), and ink and toner cartridges (Cartridges Case). The orders arose from lesser penalty applications filed by HP India under Section 46 of the Competition Act read with the CCI (Lesser Penalty) Regulations, 2009.

Anti-competitive agreements are collaborations among market forces that negatively impact market competition. These agreements weaken fair competition in the market by implementing various restrictive...

This article outlines the differences between the Indian regulatory environment in the AI driven markets as opposed to digital markets in two separate sections.

India has two regulatory layers- sector regulators since the 1990s and the CCI, which alone handles competition matters since 2002, and this has created real gaps and clashes, as seen in telecom, electricity, aviation, and conflicting court rulings. The article argues this isn’t a genuine conflict but a design flaw as the CCI is best placed to judge competition consistently, while sectoral regulators bring technical expertise the CCI lacks. This gap was flagged back in 2011 in a policy draft that was never implemented. The article proposes practical fixes, mandatory coordination, sunset clauses for outdated rules, and a revived regulator forum.

Indian competition law continued to mature in 2025, with courts playing a pivotal role in defining enforcement boundaries and providing doctrinal clarity.

The Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 has significantly modernized and revamped the Competition Act, 2002 and has equipped the Competition Commission of India (hereinafter "CCI") to better regulate the rapidly evolving digital markets, corporate restructuring from the lens of antitrust perspective, and also to effectively detect and punish anti-competitive/abusive business conducts.

On October 24, 2019, CCI approved the subscription of 4.15% of the total issued and paid-up equity share capital of Aditya Birla Capital Limited (‘ABCL') by Jomei Investments Limited (‘JIL').

“Commercial disputes being given a criminal colour” is a routine issue faced by criminal courts across the country, and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has also quashed several criminal complaints pertaining to commercial/civil claims for that reason. It is important to note that, in such criminal complaints, the usual allegations involve offences of cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, and the use of forged documents.

The word Panchanama is not used as such or defined particularly anywhere in any book of Law, but the same can be read into Section 100 under Chapter VII of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (Cr.P.C.).

In the petition, the main averments were that to practice law in India, a person has to be an Indian citizen and should possess a degree in law from a recognized University in India.

American multinational corporation Microsoft sued its Korean rival Samsung for violating a patent-licensing contract involving Android operating system.

The rapid urbanization and unprecedented growth in population has increased the need for affordable housing and lodging multifold. The infrastructure sector has grown like no other in our country and so has the problem of unauthorized and illegal construction

Though IPAIRS allows a search conducted in all the Indian Patents and Patent Applications, the system however does not allow a user to perform a full-text search.

IPO inaugurated a new building to deal with the operations of the Patent Office as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority.

The Indian Patent Office introduced a technical magazine of Controllers General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks called ‘IP EXPRESSIONS’.

The Indian power sector, structured around liberalization, delicately balances private enterprise with governmental control in times of exigency.

Drug price regulator NPPA has approved hike in prices of cardiac stents by 4.2 per cent in-line with the wholesale price index (WPI) of the previous calendar year, as per an official statement.