New Delhi: Google has accused the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in a Supreme Court filing of relying unfairly on complaints from Amazon in an anti-trust order it made against the company in October 2022, according to Reuters.This is Google’s latest challenge to the CCI, which imposed fines of over Rs 2,000 crore on the tech giant last year and directed it to change its Android and Play Store policies.On October 20, 2022, the CCI imposed a Rs 1,338 crore fine on Google, claiming it had abused “its dominant position in multiple markets in the Android mobile device ecosystem”.Five days later, it fined Google an additional Rs. 936 crore, this time saying Google had abused its market position with respect to its Play Store policies.The abusive practices in question are related to Google allegedly prioritising its own search engine on Android smartphones, including Google apps by default that can’t be uninstalled and forcing developers to use its own in-app payment system.In a filing before the Supreme Court on June 26, which hasn’t been made public yet but was viewed by news agency Reuters, Google has faulted the CCI for relying too heavily in its first October ruling on complaints from Amazon, which it says were ultimately baseless.During the CCI’s investigation into Google’s business practices, Amazon said that Google’s excessive restrictions on third-party Android use rendered it unable to properly develop its own ‘fork’ of Android, known as FireOS.According to Reuters, Google said in its filing that “Globally, FireOS failed commercially due to poor user experience. In India, the Fire Phone was not even launched … Thus, the Commission called Amazon’s lack of attempt to compete in India a failure and attributed it to Google’s agreements.”Google has also alleged that the CCI’s ruling was made “only to protect Amazon”.Android is an operating system that Google acquired in 2005. An Android ‘fork’ is a modified version of the operating system that is developed by a third party.Over 97% of Indian smartphones are powered by Android, Reuters reported.The CCI is India’s antitrust watchdog institution that functions within the corporate affairs ministry. The term ‘antitrust’ refers to laws and regulations that seek to prevent unfair business practices.This is not the first time Google has approached the Supreme Court to challenge the CCI’s October ruling. It approached the apex court for relief in January this year but was declined.It also approached the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) for relief, arguing that the CCI’s ruling had copied parts of a European order and “[deployed] evidence … that was not examined in India”.In March this year, the NCLAT upheld the CCI’s first fine but quashed four of ten directives that it asked Google to comply with.These directives would have forced Google to allow the uninstalling of its pre-installed apps on Android devices and to distribute other app marketplaces on its Play Store.Google appealed the NCLAT’s refusal to quash the fine in the Supreme Court but withdrew its challenge in April this year.