bengaluru the national company law appellate tribunal nclat has directed the competition commission of india cci to start investigating ecommerce firm flipkart for alleged misuse of its dominant position in the market the order is based on an appeal for a probe filed in 2018 by the all india online vendors association aiova which represents a group of small esellers read alsonclat asks cci to probe against flipkart over allegations of unfair practices the competition regulator had earlier disposed of aiovas appeal for a probe into flipkart which is owned by us retail major walmart but nclat set aside the cci order and asked the director general to begin an investigation the move comes at a time when cci had begun a probe into amazon india and flipkart the probe was launched in january this year based on a complaint by the delhi vyapar mahasangh but the karnataka high court gave both amazon and flipkart a stay on ccis investigation last month after the two etailers who control 7080 of the market filed an appeal advt we are delighted with todays order we are positive after the ecommerce study findings that the cci will penalise these platforms for violating various provisions of the competition act said chanakya basa who represented aiova in this casewe understand that the nclat has issued an order in relation to the aiova appeal we are currently awaiting a copy of the order a flipkart spokesperson said the allegations made against flipkart include the sale of goods on a wholesale basis to select sellers who in turn sell on flipkart marketplace and preferential treatment of small sellers aiova made these allegations against two flipkart entities flipkart india the wholesale arm and flipkart internet the marketplace entityfor cci while it initially did not find merit in aiovas plea the regulator recently conducted a study on the ecommerce sector which was followed by the launch of the probe earlier this year interestingly amazon india prior to the latest developments had referred to the ccis 2018 order disposing of the aiova plea several times in the karnataka high court when it argued for a stay order on the cci probe on amazon and flipkart but the hc stayed that cci probe last monththe complaints against both flipkart and amazon have been in the making for a while as small traders have been pleading the government over various practices in the last 18 months tnn published on mar 5 2020 at 0812 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime