New Delhi: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) ruling this week on WhatsApp’s privacy policy, upholding a penalty on the messaging app while scrapping a five-year ban on sharing data with its parent Meta, has put the spotlight on how India has been pushing back against Big Tech on competition disputes.

The ruling offers Meta partial relief, but keeps its privacy practices under close watch—a sign that India’s regulators are actively calling out unfair conduct, even if they are avoiding blanket restrictions.

This case is among a string of investigations and appeals involving tech majors, such as Google, Amazon, Flipkart, and X (formerly known as Twitter), for practices ranging from restrictive platform rules, to pricing and billing policies, reflecting India’s tighter s

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