ADCTA case against online sales pending with CCI

“We never said ban online sales instead ban unethical practices taking place online and harming in-market,” say IT partners sitting across India. OLS challenged traditional market which led to mass demonstrations, bandhs and much more. Partners aggressively fought against this and are still fighting.

During this phase All Delhi Computers Traders Association (ADCTA) sent a letter to CBI to inquire against the OLS portals. Through the letter dealers wanted to know more about unethical practices and huge disparity in discounts given online while the traditional market was barely surviving now on lower margins.

Letter raised issues on motive of OLS and mal practices involved. In order to protect distributors/dealers/revenue of Government of India /consumers, ADCTA requested CBI other concerned appropriate authorities to take appropriate steps and submitted several documents as evidence for conducting inquiry.

After studying the letter CBI sent this inquiry to Ministry of Corporate Affairs which later passed it to Competition Commission of India (CCI).

CCI combined two enquiries, one sent by ADCTA and other filed by someone else. First hearing took place in February and second in March where both parties presented their clearings and issues.

Cabinet of lawyers represent Snapdeal, Flipkart, Amazon and other online portals opposite traditional market. “We are keenly waiting for issues to be cleared off and let everyone has right to practice business at equal basis” said Swarn Singh, secretary of ADCTA.

Date for next hearing has not been announced by CCI as yet and requested inquiry is still pending under authorities.

Partners are hoping for positive result after facing huge dropdowns in business.