The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday dismissed a complaint filed by Liberty Infospace Pvt. Ltd. against Google, ruling that the tech giant did not abuse its dominant position by terminating the company's developer account on the Google Play Store.

The Commission found no prima facie violation under Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2002, and closed the case without directing an investigation.

The form-member coram of the commission, comprising Chairperson Ravneet Kaur and Members Anil Agrawal, Sweta Kakkad, Deepak Anurag found Google's actions reasonable, both in terminating the developer account and in handling the appeals process. In its order, the Commission held,

“Therefore, in the case of termination of the Informant's developer account and in the disposal of appeals

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