Indian court tells Apple to 'cooperate' in antitrust case

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Reuters

Mon, May 18, 2026 astatine 1:37 AM CDT 1 min read

NEW DELHI, May 18 (Reuters) - An Indian tribunal has told Apple to "fully cooperate" with investigators successful an ‌antitrust lawsuit related to the iPhone apps market, not ‌agreeing with the U.S. company's petition to enactment the lawsuit connected clasp ​while it challenges the instrumentality governing antitrust penalties.

• The Delhi High Court said successful an bid posted connected its website connected Saturday that Apple "shall afloat cooperate", but it asked the ‌Competition Commission of India (CCI) ⁠to not walk a last bid successful the substance until astatine slightest July 15.

• Apple wanted ⁠the lawsuit to beryllium enactment connected clasp and had accused the CCI of exceeding its powers by pushing the institution ​to taxable ​its financials - typically needed for ​penalty calculation - portion Apple ‌has a pending situation to the instrumentality governing penalties, Reuters has reported.

• The CCI has been seeking Apple's fiscal accusation since an probe recovered successful 2024 that the institution had abused its ascendant position.

• Apple has denied wrongdoing and resisted ‌demands of the CCI, arguing ​that it has challenged India's full ​antitrust punishment calculation instrumentality ​and the watchdog indispensable wait.

• The Indian lawsuit ‌is among galore Apple faces ​around the globe ​for alleged antitrust breaches. India is simply a cardinal marketplace for Apple, wherever its iPhones person a 9% marketplace ​share, compared with ‌4% 2 years ago, Counterpoint Research says.

• Apple did ​not respond to a petition for comment.

(Reporting by ​Aditya KalraEditing by David Goodman)

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