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The Delhi High Court connected Friday (May 15, 2026) asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) not to walk immoderate last bid till July 15 successful its proceedings against tech elephantine Apple over allegations of abusing its presumption connected its app store.
A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the antitrust regulator could proceed with the substance successful the meantime and asked Apple to cooperate fully.
“Lay your hands disconnected till July 15. Proceed with the matter. They volition cooperate but you volition not walk a last order,” the tribunal said.
Apple had assailed the amendment to the Competition Act, 2002, which empowered the CCI to enforce penalties based connected a company’s planetary turnover. It besides challenged absorption to furnish the firm’s audited fiscal statements for respective years.
Apple, successful its plea, said the effect of amended punishment provisions was that the turnover generated from each products oregon services of the endeavor could beryllium aggregated for computation of the penalty, alternatively of the turnover generated from the affected “relevant merchandise oregon services” of the enterprise.
It said aft the amendment, the planetary turnover of an enterprise, generated from territories extracurricular the jurisdiction of the CCI, could beryllium considered for computation of the penalty, alternatively of the turnover of an endeavor arsenic generated successful the “relevant geographic market”, that was, successful the Indian market.
The plea said amended proviso empowered the CCI to good firms recovered blameworthy of maltreatment of dominance oregon anti-competitive behaviour up to 10% of its mean turnover of preceding 3 fiscal years.
Apple stated that its maximum punishment exposure, that was, 10% of its mean planetary turnover derived from each of its products oregon services globally for fiscal years 2022 to 2024, could beryllium astir $38 billion.
