Delhi High Court refuses to stay CCI notices on Facebook, WhatsApp

New Delhi. The Delhi High Court has refused to stay a notice from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seeking certain information from Facebook and the messaging app in connection with an investigation into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy. A vacation bench of Justice Anoop Jairam Bhambhani and Justice Jasmeet Singh said that an application seeking stay of further proceedings in the investigation has already been filed, in which notice was issued to the Director General of CCI.

On this, the bench did not grant any interim relief on May 6 and fixed July 9 for hearing on it. In the order passed on June 21, the bench said, “We also find that similar things have been said in the earlier application as well as in the present application.

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We do not consider it appropriate to stay the June 8 notice at this time for the reasons of the former. A copy of this order was made available on Wednesday.

This matter is related to the appeal of Facebook and WhatsApp against the order of the Single Bench. The single bench had dismissed their petitions against the CCI ordering a probe into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy. The High Court had earlier issued notices on the appeals and sought a response from the Centre.

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For information, let us tell you that Facebook and WhatsApp had sought the court’s intervention to stay the CCI’s June 4 notice, in which they had asked to give some information for the purpose of investigation.

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