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title: "Amazon has asked the CCI to cancel the clearance of the Reliance-Future agreement."  
description: "The victor of the battle for India's second-largest retailer and Amazon's estranged local partner, Future Retail Ltd, would take the lead in the race"  
author: "Vallabha Buddepu"  
published: 2021-11-28  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/958/amazon-has-asked-the-cci-to-cancel-the-clearance-of-the-reliance-future-agreement  
category: "amazon"  
tags: ["technology news", "amazon"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Amazon has asked the CCI to cancel the clearance of the Reliance-Future agreement.

According to a letter seen by Reuters, Amazon has requested India's antitrust authority to rescind its permission for Future Retail's $3.4 billion sale of retail assets to Reliance, claiming that it was 'illegally obtained,' violating an order halting the deal.

According to a letter issued by Amazon.com Inc to the [Competition](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23460/5-ways-you-can-use-competition-to-your-benefit) [Commission](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62212/who-has-been-elected-as-the-first-female-president-of-the-european-commission) of India (CCI) last week, the clearance for the purchase was a 'nullity in the eyes of law' because an arbitrator's order was still in effect.

The fight for supremacy in India's growing, nearly trillion-dollar retail business pits two of the world's wealthiest men, Amazon founder [Jeff Bezos](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1634/jeff-bezos-responded-joe-biden-s-words-can-corporate-taxes-tame-inflation) and Reliance Industries Ltd CEO [Mukesh Ambani](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49499/what-is-mukesh-ambani-net-worth).

The victor of the battle for India's second-largest retailer and Amazon's estranged local partner, Future Retail Ltd, would take the lead in the race to address the daily [requirements](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12850/drivers-license-requirements) of over a [billion people](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1350/the-six-natural-resources-most-drained-by-our-7-billion-people).

Requests for response from the CCI, Amazon, Future Group, and Reliance were not returned.\

Future claims the arbitrator's suspension order is unconstitutional, but Indian courts have refused to overturn it.

It would be a big blow for oil-to-[telecom company](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39231/which-telecom-company-has-signed-pact-with-japan-s-ntt-at-for-futuristic-technologies-5g-test) Reliance if the regulator agrees with the previously disclosed letter.

Last year, Amazon obtained an injunction against the sale from a Singapore court, arguing that Future had breached contracts prohibiting it from transferring the assets to firms such as Reliance.

However, the CCI later approved the purchase.\

In a letter dated Wednesday, Amazon claimed that Future misled the CCI and continued to seek clearance for the deal, calling the injunction a 'brazen attempt to violate the [rule of law](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39394/the-concept-of-rule-of-law-is-a-special-feature-of-constitutional-system-of-which-country).'

Amazon requested a personal hearing with the CCI in order to present its case.

The letter comes as Amazon fights charges that it lied about facts and withheld information in order to get antitrust approval for a 2019 [acquisition](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2246/following-elon-musk-s-acquisition-gm-suspends-its-twitter-advertising) with Future Group.\

Amazon has so far been successful in using the terms of this agreement to stymie Future's deal with Reliance.

For further article on Amazon :

1) [https://www.mindstick.com/news/956/protesters-stormed-amazon-s-headquarters-on-black-friday](https://www.mindstick.com/news/956/protesters-stormed-amazon-s-headquarters-on-black-friday)

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