In this Roundup, we highlight important developments in Indian competition law in April 2022. In summary:

• The Competition Commission of India (CCI) found that several suppliers of bushes used in railway rolling stock had cartelised while participating in tenders floated by Indian Railways. Four of the eleven suppliers involved made leniency applications and received lesser penalties.
• The CCI directed an investigation into allegations of anti-competitive vertical agreements involving online food delivery platforms.
• The CCI dismissed at prima facie stage allegations that online food platform Zomato had abused a dominant position in relation to its cancellation policy and terms on exclusion of liability.
• The CCI amended its confidentiality regime, introducing self-certification of confidentiality claims, treating certain material as confidential by default and introducing confidentiality rings.
• The Bombay High Court addressed the question of parallel investigations by the CCI and sectoral regulators.
• In clearing a transaction in the IT and ITES sector, the CCI made it clear that notifying parties could not apply limiting criteria in determining overlaps involving investee companies and had to provide details of other pipeline acquisitions where these were not too speculative.

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