Competition Commission’s Landmark Ruling Cracks The Whip On Auto Industry

Adhering to the principles of "due processes", Indian judicial and regulatory authorities have been taking steps to reduce delays in adjudicatory processes.

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...

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...

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...

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

Competition law shapes nearly every significant merger and acquisition. Regulators in the United States, European Union, United Kingdom and other jurisdictions review deals that could substantially lessen competition, raise prices, reduce innovation or harm workers and consumers. In 2025 and 2026 the enforcement landscape has shifted.

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.