TagCompetition Act

Supreme Court on Jurisdictional Conflicts between the CCI and TRAI

[Rajvansh Singh is a 3rd year student at National Law University Odisha]  Conflict in Jurisdiction The preamble of the Competition Act, 2002 read with section 18 of the legislation delegates to the Competition Commission of India (the “CCI”) the duty of “promoting and sustaining competition” in the Indian economy. This implies that the CCI will have principal jurisdiction to regulate conditions...

Non-Dominant Enterprises’ Offers and Schemes: Predatory Pricing or Not?

[Muskan Agarwal is a 3rd-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] The Competition Act of 2002 [the “Act”] defines predatory pricing as the sale of goods or provision of services at a price which is below the cost of production, with a view to reduce competition or eliminate competitors. Predatory pricing is seen as abuse of dominant position under section 4 of...

The Common Ownerships Conundrum

[Parag Srivastava and Poonam Pal Sharma are members of the law firm Nishith Desai Associates. The views represented in this post are strictly personal and do not represent the views of the firm] The insidious yet hitherto unspoken subject of horizontal shareholders has been in recent limelight due to its mention in the order by the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) in its Ola Meru Cabs Case...

Review of Indian Competition Law – Pointers

The Government of India has appointed a committee to review the Competition Act, 2002 to review the law and come up with recommendations to strengthen and re-calibrate the law.  The Committee is expected to finish its work within three months of its first meeting. I wrote a column in the Business Standard  earlier this week pointing out a few areas of low-hanging fruit that need attention. ...

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