Amazon had challenged a November order of the Delhi excessive court docket by shifting an utility in the primary case.
The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday requested Amazon to not combine up the issues arising out of orders of different courts and tribunals with the primary problem pending earlier than it on the proposed sale of retail property by Future Group to the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, noticed that the businesses concerned within the authorized wrangle ought to institute circumstances individually towards totally different orders of the courts and never every thing associated to Amazon and Future could be heard in the identical batch of circumstances.
“Don’t carry every thing on this batch of circumstances. You avail of your treatments individually,” the bench, which additionally included justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli, advised Amazon’s lawyer Gopal Subramanium whereas listening to the clutch of circumstances referring to Future Group’s $3.4 billion sale of retail property to Reliance.
Amazon challenged a November 16 order of the Delhi excessive court docket by shifting an utility in the primary case. By this order, the HC expedited the proceedings earlier than the Competitors Fee of India (CCI) that in June issued a show-cause discover to Amazon over the revocation of approval given to the US-based firm for the funding transaction with Future Coupons Pvt Ltd (FCPL). The HC order was handed on a petition filed by the Confederation of All India Merchants (CAIT).
Taking a look at this utility, the bench mentioned that this problem required a separate listening to. “CCI is a separate discussion board. Some PIL, some petition (was) filed and the excessive court docket handed some order. Proper or fallacious, we’ll see individually. However that may’t be heard with these circumstances,” the bench advised Subramanium.
It additionally noticed that the apex court docket’s September 9 order asking the Delhi HC to not proceed with the Amazon-Future case any additional was confined solely to the proceedings already initiated earlier than it by the Future Group and Amazon.
“Learn our order. It’s being handled as a gag order. Did we ask the excessive court docket to not hear something? We solely handed the order confined to proceedings pending earlier than us. Will we hear all Amazon circumstances right here now? That was by no means the intent or language of our order,” added the bench.
At this, Subramanium apprised the bench that Amazon has additionally filed a particular depart petition individually towards Delhi HC order of 16 November.
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