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An investigation by India’s antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging “in abusive conduct and practices”, a confidential report seen by Reuters showed. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been investigating Apple Inc, since 2021 for possibly abusing its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary in-app purchase system. The CCI’s investigations unit, in its 142-page report which is not public but was seen by Reuters, said Apple wields “significant influence” over how digital products and services reach consumers, especially through its iOS platform and App Store.

In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday (July 12) granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the case registered by under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) over the liquor policy case, while referring his petition challenging the arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to a larger bench.

The UAE is prohibiting companies from offering or applying very low prices for production, transfer and marketing with a monopolistic approach to drive other companies out of competition. The new law defines competition as the act of conducting economic activities based on market mechanisms, but not such mechanisms that harm trade, development and consumer interests. This was aimed at ensuring fair competition and prohibition of monopolistic approaches for all companies and also protecting consumers’ rights in the country. The law will also regulate mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the local market.

The European Union antitrust regulators said on Thursday that Apple will open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals. The company has faced three investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which requires Big Tech to ensure a level playing field for rivals and give users more choice. Apple’s tap-and-go technology called near-field communication, or NFC, allows for contactless payments with mobile wallets. It will now allow developers to access its NFC to pre-build payment apps for rival mobile vallet providers.

The Department of Telecommunication on Wednesday released draft right of way rules under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, for public feedback over 30 days. The Right of Way (RoW) rules prescribe how telecommunication infrastructure, including mobile towers, poles, common ducts and conduits to hold cabling, small cells, street furniture and the like, can be installed over public and private property.

The Supreme Court on 10th July in Mohd Abdul Samad v. The State of Telangana & Anr had observed that a Muslim woman who has been illegally divorced through pronouncement of Triple Talaq is entitled to seek maintenance u/s 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure

A group of 27 cloud providers have agreed to settle the complaint they lodged with the European Commission over alleged anti-competitive behaviour related to the cost they pay to run Microsoft’s software in their datacentres. The agreement, which will remain confidential, was voted on this afternoon by the members of the Cloud Infrastructure Service Provider of Europe (CISPE) trade group, comprising of 26 firms in Europe and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It means Microsoft has managed to avoid greater scrutiny and a potential date with the regulators.

The Delhi High Court has recently dismissed a plea against the merger of Vistara Airlines and Air India Limited. The court upheld an order passed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in December last year and dismissed Kumar’s plea against the merger, noting the absence of any substantive evidence to back the allegations.

Shares in Delivery Hero fell as much as 17.4% in early trading on Monday, a day after the German online food takeaway firm said the European Commission might fine it more than 400 million euros ($433 million) due to antitrust violations. The fine would be for alleged anti-competitive agreement to share national markets, exchanges of commercially sensitive information and no-poach agreement, a statement by the Company said. Delivery Hero said that they would cooperate with the Commission’s investigation like they had done before, during the raids of July 2022 and November 2023

The Delhi High Court recently convicted a man for criminal contempt of court and ordered him to remain present in the court throughout the day as punishment along with imposition of fine of ₹1 lakh on contemnor. The conviction by the court was for seeking money by the contemnor from the owner of an alleged illegal construction. He had filed a petition before the High Court against the construction and sought money to withdraw the plea. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Amit Sharma said that Sharma’s conduct showed utter disregard and abuse of the Court’s process which cannot be condoned. [Court on its own motion v Pradeep Aggarwal]