The Court said that Starbucks was entitled to relief on account of the forms being posted by imposters to elicit private information and data from the general public.
Even as Google requested that the matter be listed today, stating that the CCI lacks quorum to decide the applications, the Bench refused to hear the matter today.
Before the High Court, the start-ups argued that Google was attempting to bypass the CCI direction by introducing a policy called ‘User Choice Billing’ (UCB) which will come into effect from April 26.
Google told the court that in 2011, it learnt about a ''concocted collaboration'' had been announced between its ''supposed India entity'' and Tata Communications for a joint venture in the name of E-Kutir Technology & Extension Management (P) Ltd, a Knowledge Process Outsourcing unit.