Kailash Gupta Vs. All India Organisation of Chemist & Druggist & Others · Case No. 06 of 2012
CCI competition order Case No. 06 of 2012 · 29 Jun 2026
CCI competition order Case No. 06 of 2012 · 29 Jun 2026
Summary
Check the official recordThe Competition Commission of India closed proceedings against 34 opposite parties, including various chemist associations and pharmaceutical companies, regarding allegations of anti-competitive practices such as mandatory No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for stockist appointments, compulsory Product Information Service (PIS) charges, and boycotts. The Commission found that the evidence relied upon by the Director General primarily pertained to the period 2009–2012 and did not establish continuing contraventions post-2014, following compliance measures and undertakings previously accepted by the Commission. The Commission concluded that no case of contravention of Section 3 of the Competition Act was made out against any of the opposite parties.
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COMPETITION COMMISSION OF INDIA
Case No. 06 of 2012 In Re:
Mr. Kailash Gupta, President, All India Chemists and Distributors Federation All India Chemists and Distributors Federation Bharat Pharma D-14-A/2, Model Town Delhi - 110 003 Informant
And
Opposite Party No. 1 2. Indian Drug Manufacturers’ Association Indian Drug Manufactures Association 102- Poonam Chambers, ‘A; Wing Dr. Annie Besant Road Worli, Mumbai – 400 018.
Opposite Party No. 2 3. Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India 1620, C- Wing, One BKC, G – Block Plot No. C-66, Bandra Kurla Complex Bandra East Mumbai – 400 051
Opposite Party No. 3
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Opposite Party No. 4 5. Punjab Chemist Association Lebon Pharmaceuticals Opp. Sohan Singh Eye Hospital Katra Sher Singh, Amritsar
Opposite Party No. 5 6. Amritsar Chemist Association 465, Gopal Nagar, Majitha Road Amritsar – 143 001
Opposite Party No. 6 7. AIOCD Utkal Committee Plot No. 1 Bhouma Nagar, Unit – IV Bhubaneswar, Odisha – 751 001
Opposite Party No. 7 8. Madhya Pradesh Chemist & Druggist Association Jain Products (INDIA), Gonsa Farwaja Ujjain Madhya Pradesh – 456 606
Opposite Party No. 8 9. Rewari District Chemist & Druggist Association Aggarwal Stores, Gokal Bazar, Rewari
Opposite Party No. 9 10. Karnataka Chemist & Druggist Association III Floor, Lakshmi Complex, K.R. Road, Opp. Vanivilas Hospital, Bangalore – 560 002
Opposite Party No. 10 11. Bihar Chemist & Druggist Association 2nd, Floor, Palit Niketan Govind Mitra Road, Patna – 800 004 (Bihar)
Opposite Party No. 11
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Opposite Party No. 12 13. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. 8-2-337, Road No.3 Banjara Hills Hyderabad – 500 034, Telangana, India
Opposite Party No. 13 14. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Torrent House, Off Ashram Road Ahmedabad – 380 009
Opposite Party No. 14 15. Comed Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. 2nd Floor Sun Plaza -1 Nr. Vadsar Bridge, Makarpura GIDC Road Vadodara – 390 010
Opposite Party No. 15 16. Cipla Ltd. CIPLA House, Peninsula Business Park, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra – 400 013
Opposite Party No. 16 17. Aventis Pharma Ltd. Sanofi House, CTS No. 117-B, L&T Business Park Saki Vihar Road, Powai Mumbai, Maharashtra – 400 072
Opposite Party No. 17 18. Panacea Biotec Ltd. Ambala – Chandigarh Highway Lalru – 140 501 (Punjab)
Opposite Party No. 18 19. Embiotic Laboratories (P) Ltd. 20C Kumbalgodu Indl. Area, 1st Phase, Kumbalgodu Mysore Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 074
Opposite Party No. 19 20. Franco Indian Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. Opposite Party No. 20
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54 B, Mathuradas Vasanji Road Andheri (E) Mumbai – 400 093
Opposite Party No. 21 22. Glaxo SmithKline GSK House Plot No. 252, Dr. Annie Besant Road Worli Mumbai – 400 036
Opposite Party No. 22 23. Pfizer Ltd. The Capital, 1802/1901 Plot No. C-70, G Block Bandra Kurla Complex Bandra (East), Mumbai – 400 051
Opposite Party No. 23 24. Merck Ltd. Godrej One 8th Floor, Pirojshanagar, Eastern Express Highway, Vikhroli (East), Mumbai, Maharashtra – 400 079
Opposite Party No. 24 25. Glenmark Pharmaceutical Ltd. Glenmark House, B D Sawant Marg Andheri (E) Mumbai – 400 009
Opposite Party No. 25 26. Sun Pharma Sun House, Plot No. 201 B/1 Opposite Party No. 26
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Western Express Highway, Goregaon (E) Mumbai – 400 063, Maharashtra
Opposite Party No. 27 28. Unichem Laboratories Ltd. Unichem Bhavan Prabhat Estate Off S. V. Road Jogeshwari (West) Mumbai – 400 102
Opposite Party No. 28 29. IND Swift Ltd. 781, Industrial Area Phase II, Chandigarh – 160 002
Opposite Party No. 29 30. Eli Lilly & Co. India (P) Ltd. Plot No. 92 Sector -32 Gurgaon – 122 001 (Haryana)
Opposite Party No. 30 31. FDC Ltd. B-8 MIDC, Industrial Estate, Waluj, Aurangabad, Maharashtra – 431 130
Opposite Party No. 31 32. J.B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. Cnergy IT Park, Unit A, 8th Floor, Appa Saheb Marathe Marg Prabhadevi Mumbai – 400 025
Opposite Party No. 32 33. MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. 1544, Level 15, Eros Corporate Towers Nehru Place New Delhi – 110 019
Opposite Party No. 33
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Opposite Party No. 34 CORAM Ms. Ravneet Kaur Chairperson
Mr. Anil Agrawal Member
Ms. Sweta Kakkad Member
Mr. Deepak Anurag Member
Appearances:
For Informant : None For Opposite Party No. 1, and Mr. J.S. Shinde, President, Opposite Party No. 1
: Mr. Nakul Mohta, Mr. Sachin S, and Mr. Hitesh Nagar, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 2 and Mr. Daara B. Patel, Secretary General, Opposite Party No. 2
: Ms. Avantika Kakkar, Mr. Aman Singh Baroka and Ms. Ananya Mahant, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 3 : Mr. Navnit Kumar and Mr. Shubhankar Gupta, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 5 : Mr. Nakul Mohta, Mr. Sachin S, and Mr. Hitesh Nagar, Advocates
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For Opposite Party No. 6 and Mr. Rajesh Soi, President, Opposite Party No. 6 : Mr. Nakul Mohta and Mr. Sachin S, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 7 : Mr. Ayush Kashyap and Ms. Saijal Arora, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 8 : Ms. Devahuti Pathak and Ms. Ishani Bannerjee, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 10 : Mr. Nakul Mohta, Mr. Sachin S, and Mr. Hitesh Nagar, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 11 and Mr. Parsan Kumar Singh, President, Opposite Party No. 11 and Former General Secretary, (OP-1) : Mr. Nakul Mohta, Mr. Sachin S, and Mr. Hitesh Nagar, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 12 None For Opposite Party No. 13 : Ms. Avantika Kakkar, Mr. Aman Singh Baroka and Ms. Ananya Mahant, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 14 and Mr. Vijay Kelkar, Former Assistant General Manager, Opposite Party No. 14 : Mr. Arun Kathpalia, Senior Advocate, Mr. Ram Kumar Poornachandran, Ms. Chandni Anand, Ms. Ileina Srivastav, Ms. Nidhi Mehta, Ms. Diksha Gupta and Mr. Harshawardhan, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 15 and Mr. J.S. Sethi, Managing Director, Opposite Party No. 15 : Mr. Kalrav Mehrotra and Ms. Aishwarya, Advocate For Opposite Party No. 18 : Mr. G R Bhatia, and Ms. Vatsala Pandey, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 20 : Mr. Samar Bansal, Ms. Rhea Parkash, , Mr. Jay Zaveri and Mr. Pranav Saigal, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 21 : Mr. Arjun Nihal Singh and Mr. Manav Gupta, Advocates
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For Opposite Party No. 22 : Mr. Vaibhav Gaggar, Senior Advocate and Ms. Yaatri Shah, Advocate For Opposite Party No. 23 : Mr. Samar Bansal, Ms. Zenia Cassinath, Mr. Abhay, Ms. Pallavi Damor, Ms. Radhika and Mr. Vaibhav Singh, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 25 : Ms. Nisha Kaur Uberoi, Mr. Sarthak Pande, Mr. Ishan Arora, Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash Singh and Mr. Kamal Sharma, Advocates with Mr. Samir Kazi and Mr Anil Shukla, Company Representatives For Opposite Party No. 26 : Ms. Avantika Kakkar, Mr. Aman Singh Baroka and Ms. Ananya Mahant, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 28 : None For Opposite Party No. 30 : Mr. Krishna Vijay Singh and Ms. Pragya Sharma, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 32 : Mr. Ritin Rai Sr. Advocate, Ms. Avantika Kakkar, Mr. Aman Singh Baroka, Ms. Ananya Mahant, Ms. Rasmani Raghuwanshi, Ms. Ankita Gupta, and Mr. Vishal Chavan, Advocates For Opposite Party No. 33 : Mr. Riku Sharma and Mr. Shubhankar Gupta, Advocates