The prima facie observations by a single judge are that the US e-commerce giant's attempt to control the Indian entity was violative of FEMA and FDI rules
Delhi High Court sought response of Future Retail on Amazon's plea challenging observations by a judge the US e-commerce giant's attempt to control Indian entity was violative of FEMA and FDI rules
Amazon also urged Sebi about not granting any no-objection in relation to the same and directing the Indian Stock Exchanges not to issue any no-objection/approval letter to Future Retail
This is the sixth instance of the e-commerce giant writing to Sebi on the matter
The court ruled that Amazon's attempt to control Future Retail through a conflation of agreements it has with an unlisted unit of the Indian company will be violative of the FEMA FDI rules
Court prima facie finds suit filed by Future Retail is maintainable, Emergency Award valid, and Future Retail's resolution approving deal with Reliance was also valid
On August 29 this year, the Future Group announced sale of its retail and wholesale business to Reliance Retail in a Rs 24,713 crore deal
Heritage Foods has sold its entire holding representing over 3 per cent stake in Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail for around Rs 132 crore in the open market to mainly repay its long term loans.
Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd on Thursday accused e-commerce giant Amazon of adopting a media strategy of "having every development reported
Future Retail - one of country's top retailers - has been locked in a bitter dispute with Amazon over its $3.4 billion retail assets deal with Reliance Industries
The company had pleaded that it be excluded from being a party on account of jurisdiction objection
Questions thrown up by the case are salient to decide what sort of money India gets from world markets
The legal counsel of Amazon told the court that it had introduced Samara, an investor to Future and the term sheet was offered to solve its problems
The two players have said that they will go ahead with the regulatory process despite Amazon's objections
Future Retail which was represented by senior advocate Harish Salve told the court Future Retail does not need to seek permission from Amazon for any investments as it does not have any rights
The US firm claims that its contract with the unlisted Future Copouns Ltd (FCL) barred a transaction with a number of persons and companies, including Ambani and Reliance.
Future Retail admitted in a statement that the Covid-19 pandemic had impacted its business significantly
All that happened in the markets today.
Future Retail's revenue from operations was down 73.86% at Rs1,424.21 crore during the quarter
Amazon is willing to 'sink the ship' but doesn't want Reliance to acquire Future's assets, says one analyst.