"On The Day Of Quit India...": Minister Welcomes Amazon, Flipkart Ruling

Supreme Court had on Monday pulled up Amazon and Flipkart for trying to stall investigations ordered in 2020 by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal welcomed on Tuesday a Supreme Court decision that Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart should face investigations into alleged anti-competitive behaviour, saying their trading practices would be looked into. Piyush Goyal's comments are the latest sign of New Delhi's discontent with the two US e-commerce giants, which have for years faced allegations of bypassing laws to run their businesses and hurting smaller retailers. On Monday, the Supreme Court pulled up Amazon and Flipkart for trying to stall investigations ordered in 2020 by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), saying big organisations like theirs should volunteer to assist in any inquiry. Mr Goyal welcomed the court's decision while speaking in the Parliament, where he invoked the "Quit India" campaign - a movement launched in 1942 by Mahatma Gandhi demanding an end to British rule.