New Delhi: Walmart’s Flipkart should not be treated the same as Amazon rivals in Indian antitrust probe as proof of the two companies “qualitatively different”, Flipkart argues in the court seen by Reuters.
Amazon and Flipkart have challenged the Indian competition (CCI) commission in court when they seek the revocation of the Indian court decision to enable antitrust investigations to them to continue.
The company denies errors.
The Indian government has called the company A.S.
Arrogant and accuse them of using the legal route to stop the investigation.
In the final submission made to court in Karnataka, the Walmart unit argued that the CCI and the court “confused the fact” between the case of Amazon and Flipkart, and ignored that they were “fierce competitors”.
To support his argument, it is said that the business agreement examined by CCI before ordering a probe is only between Amazon and the seller, and there is no evidence such as the Walmart unit.
“Allegations and evidence before the CCI to the applicant are qualitatively different from those relating to Amazon …
CCI should independently examine cases of each of the two platforms,” ​​Flipkart said in submitting 46 pages, not public.
The court tends to provide a written order about the appeal in the coming days.
Flipkart and Amazon did not immediately respond to a comment request immediately.
CCI does not respond outside the regular working hours on Sundays.
Over the years, Amazon and Flipkart have denied allegations from brick retailers and mortars about the law to create a complex business structure.
Minister of Trade Piyush Goyal last month attacked the e-commerce giant to submit a legal challenge and failed to obey the CCI Probe, said “If they don’t have anything to hide …
why did they not respond to CCI?” In February, Reuters investigations based on Internal Amazon documents showed US companies for many years have helped a small amount of prosperous sellers on its platform in India, using it to bypass foreign investment laws.
Amazon also has indirect equity shares in two large online sellers, Cloudtail and Appario, who get “subsidized fees”, Reuters reported.
The Walmart unit argued that in its submission that “unlike in the Amazon case”, there were no structural links of all types between flipkart and the seller.
Flipkart “should be treated differently from Amazon,” he said.
Amazon and Flipkart are leading players in the Indian e-retail market will be worth $ 200 billion in 2026.