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Indian competition law roundup: December 2019
December 1, 2019Institutional development
New Judicial Member for the CCI
Justice Sangita Dinghra Sehgal, a judge in the Delhi High Court, was appointed as the judicial member of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Since the CCI performs adjudicatory/quasi-judicial functions, the absence of a judicial member for some time had given rise to concern and, in April 2019, a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court directed the CCI to ensure that a judicial member was present and participated at all times in final hearings. Although the Delhi High Court held in July 2019 that an order made in the absence of a judicial member could not be called into question, the appointment of a judicial member is to be welcomed.
