CCI Investigates Star India For Discriminatory Pricing, Refuses Interim Relief To Complainant: Khaitan & Co.

The Legal Library section collates quality and in-depth reports on regulatory developments, court rulings and policy changes authored by India’s top law firms and consultants. These reports offer BloombergQuint’s subscribers an opportunity to expand their understanding of law and policy..Khaitan & Co. Update.On February 28, 2022, the Competition Commission of India directed the Director General to investigate Star India Pvt. Ltd., Disney Broadcasting (India) Ltd., and Asianet Star Communications Pvt. Ltd. for charging discriminatory prices from distributors for its bouquet of indispensable TV channels in Kerala. Asianet Digital Network Pvt. Ltd (informant) had filed an information against Star India, Disney India, and Asianet Star on January 31, 2022, alleging anti-competitive conduct. It was alleged that Star India was offering higher and discriminatory discounts in the form of promotion and advertisement payments (through marketing agreements) to the informant’s competitor, Kerala Communicators Cable Ltd. The informant submitted that the discounts offered to KCCL breached the caps imposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India through its regulations, under which broadcasters cannot offer discounts to distributors above a certain percentage and must offer them on fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory terms to all distributors.The CCI opined that Star India’s conduct prima facie amounted to discriminatory pricing and denial of market access. On interim relief, the CCI concluded that the Informant failed to satisfy any of the parameters for granting interim protection. Click on the attachment to read the full report:.DISCLAIMERThis alert does not constitute legal advice and is for information purpose only. This report is authored by an external party. BloombergQuint does not vouch for the accuracy of its contents nor is responsible for them in any way. The views expressed in the report are that of the author entity and do not represent the views of BloombergQuint..Users have no license to copy, modify, or distribute the content without permission of the Original Owner.

CCI Investigates Star India For Discriminatory Pricing, Refuses Interim Relief To Complainant: Khaitan & Co.

CCI Investigates Star India For Discriminatory Pricing, Refuses Interim Relief To Complainant: Khaitan & Co. Analysis

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