By Aditya Kalra and Arpan Chaturvedi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Apple is challenging India’s new antitrust penalty law under which the U.S. company could potentially face a fine of up to $38 billion, a court filing at the Delhi High Court, seen by Reuters, shows.

The challenge is the first against India’s antitrust penalty law that since last year allows the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to use global turnover when calculating the penalties it imposes on companies for abusing their market dominance.

Since 2022, Tinder-owner Match and Indian startups have been locked in an antitrust battle with Apple at the CCI, where investigators last year issued a report saying the U.S. smartphone company had engaged in “abusive conduct” on the apps market of its iPhone Operating System, iOS.

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