Court : Competition Commission of India CCI
1. BACKGROUND 1.1 This case was initiated on a complaint dated 28.04.2009 filed by Shri Uday Joshi, Authorised Signatory of Vedant Bio - Sciences, Baroda (hereinafter referred to as the "Informant"), before the Director General (Investigation and Registration), Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission [hereinafter referred to as "DG(lR)"] alleging that the Opposite Party, namely, Chemists and Druggists Association of Baroda (hereinafter referred to as "CDAB" or 'Association") is indulging into restrictive trade practices. 1.2 The Informant has claimed that he is a Baroda based distributor of few pharmaceutical companies and sells pharmaceutical formulations of the companies through promotion and distribution. 1.3 The allegations contained in the complaint / information, in brief, are as below: (i) CDAB is an unregistered body and is imposing unfair conditions in sale of pharmaceutical products of different companies. (ii) CDAB has formulated guidelines for its members whic...
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ORDER UNDER SECTION 26(2) OF THE COMPETITION ACT, 2002. The present information was filed under section 19(1)(a) of the Competition Act, 2002 (the Act) by BIG CBS Networks Pvt. Ltd. and Reliance Television Pvt. Ltd. (together referred to as informant) against Tata Sky Ltd. (OP) alleging abuse of dominant position in contravention of section 4 of the Act. 2. BIG CBS Networks Pvt. Ltd. is stated to be a joint venture between Reliance Broadcast Television Pvt. Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Television Pvt. Ltd.) and CBS Broadcasting Inc. (a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA). The informant distributes TV channels such as BIG CBS SPARK, BIG CBS PRIME, BIG CBS LOVE, BIG CBS PUNJABI and BIG MAGIC etc. 3. The OP is stated to be a joint venture between Tata Sons and the Star Group (Sky). It is a Direct To Home (DTH) service provider. The informant submitted that the OP was a popular and dominant DTH operator with a subscriber base ranging between 26%...
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