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India's Digital Competition Bill get regulator's push but meets resistance

By Freny Patel ( July 15, 2025, 00:13 GMT | Comment) -- India's top competition official has voiced strong support for the proposed Digital Competition Bill, advocating for proactive "self-reporting obligations" to enhance market health, despite the existing regulatory body's dual ex-post and ex-ante capabilities. Antitrust lawyers, however, have questioned the necessity of the proposed new legislation, arguing that the current framework is sufficient and that introducing a fresh ex-ante regime could stifle innovation and investment without clear evidence of market failure. Legal experts propose a more focused approach, emphasizing the need to first identify genuine market failures and their direct causal link to existing regulatory gaps, rather than simply adopting foreign models or creating potentially redundant parallel systems.Paving the way for proactive digital oversight, the head of India's competition authority has expressed robust support for the proposed Digital Competition Bill, or DCB....

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