On 7 April 2026 the Competition Commission held seventeen electrical contractors liable under s.3(3)(d) for cover bidding and bid rotation in APHCL tenders, but issued only a cease-and-desist direction under s.27(a) — calibrating contravention-finding against penalty-quantum where the contraveners are small enterprises with geographically circumscribed conduct.
The May 2026 NCLAT order setting aside the CCI's ₹301.6 crore penalty on Grasim Industries — on the procedural ground that the CCI failed to give the appellant notice of disagreement with the DG's findings — joins the April 2026 CCI directions for investigation into the Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group and the bid-rigging order against seventeen electrical contractors in the Assam Police Housing tenders. Read together with the closure of the Indigo / Air India cancellation-charges probe and the jurisdictional-boundary disposition in Roppen / Rapido, the cycle discloses the procedural and substantive contours of CCI practice as it stands at mid-2026.
On 17 March 2026, the Competition Commission of India closed a complaint against Roppen Transportation (Rapido) over alleged use of private (white-plate) vehicles in its bike-taxi service. The Commission's reasoning was jurisdictional: the dispute fell within the specialised framework of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and not within the Commission's competition-law jurisdiction. A digest of the order, the jurisdictional doctrine, and what it reveals about the Commission's posture on overlap with sectoral regulation.
Two airlines control nearly 90% of the Indian domestic aviation market. A complainant alleged that their identical cancellation-charge structures were anti-competitive — collusion under Section 3, abuse of dominance under Section 4, or both. The Competition Commission of India closed the matter under Section 26(2) on the ground that no prima facie case had been made out. A digest of the reasoning, the threshold standard, and what the disposition reveals about the CCI's contemporary posture in consumer-pricing complaints.