ED serving notice to Flipkart and not Amazon 'raises suspicion': CAIT

Influential trade association writes to investigating agency, appeals to commerce and finance ministers.

An influential trade association has told the government the Enforcement Directorate (ED) “served notice only to Flipkart and not to Amazon” when the Karnataka High Court had prime facie found both e-commerce firms guilty of indulging in anti-competitive prices.

ED’s action “raises suspicion”, said Praveen Khandelwal, national secretary general of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), in a letter to the investigating agency’s director after it sent a Rs 10,600-crore recovery notice against Flipkart for allegedly violating foreign exchange rules.

CAIT said it has also made a representation on Saturday to Piyush Goyal, minister for commerce and industry, and