The CCI has found Amazon, Flipkart and 5 other smartphone brands guilty of colluding to stifle competition in the country.

Praveen Khandelwal, BJP MP and Secretary General Emeritus of CAIT has accused Amazon and Flipkart of violating fair competition rules. He highlighted issues such as preferential treatment of sellers and deep discounting.

Indian authorities have concluded that e-commerce giants Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart breached local antitrust laws by favoring specific sellers on their platforms, according to reports obtained by Reuters.

An Indian antitrust regulator has found that Amazon and Flipkart, owned by Walmart, violated local competition laws, according to a report from Reuters. The finding presents a new challenge for the e-commerce giants in a market where online retail growth remains modest at under 15% and quick-commerce is increasingly snatching business from Amazon India and Flipkart.

Indian antitrust investigations have found that Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to some sellers, prioritising certain listings, and steeply discounting products,

Samsung, Xiaomi, and other smartphone makers allegedly colluded with Amazon and Flipkart, breaching Indian antitrust laws by favouring select sellers and launching products exclusively online, as per CCI investigations,

Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart to exclusively launch products on the e-commerce.

A lawmaker of India's ruling party and a key retailers' group urged the government on Friday to suspend the operations of Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart in light of antitrust breaches.