India's antitrust body has asked the Supreme Court to hear legal challenges to an investigation of Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart e-commerce platforms, saying those challenges, filed by Samsung, Vivo and others at Indian high courts,

India's antitrust body has asked the Supreme Court to hear legal challenges to an investigation of Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart e-commerce platforms

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Competition Commission of India will not receive special treatment regarding writ petitions challenging its antitrust probe against Amazon and Flipkart.

The AG argued that the matter affects millions of consumers, and that CCI was in the court in public interest and not as a private litigant.