Top court rejects CCI's case transfer request

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that it cannot get any "special treatment" in petitions challenging its antitrust probe against e-commerce giants including Amazon and Flipkart transferred from various high courts to the top court, and granted it time till Monday (December 16) to take instructions on whether all matters could be bunched and heard together by the Karnataka High Court (HC).

- Abraham Thomas

A single bench of the Karnataka HC is currently hearing a dozen petitions by various e-retailers challenging the commission's August 28 order. CCI, in its appeal, sought to transfer the cases pending before the high courts of Allahabad, Madras, Telangana, Punjab & Haryana, Delhi and Karnataka, either to the Supreme Court, or alternatively, to the Delhi High Court where the matter is pending before a two-judge bench.