Google goes to Delhi HC against CCI, claims confidential report leaked to media

Google, which is facing investigation from the Competition Commission of India, has filed a case against the government body. The company has told Delhi High Court that CCI is leaking confidential report to media.

Google has filed a writ petition in Delhi High Court against the Competition Commission of India. The company in its petition, which is likely to be listed and heard on Friday, protests "against the breach of confidence which impairs Google’s ability to defend itself and harms Google and its partners." The "breach" that Google talks of relates to, according to the company, leaking of a confidential report that CCI has prepared on Google's business practices in India.

Google says that "on September 18, 2021, a confidential interim fact-finding report submitted by the Director General’s office to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) relating to an ongoing investigation into Google’s Android smartphone agreements was leaked to the media."