April 23, 2021 The Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed petitions filed by Facebook and WhatsApp against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order to investigate the messaging platform’s new privacy policy, Bar and Bench reported. On March 24, CCI had directed its investigation arm, the director general, to complete the inquiry within 60 days after prima facie finding that the Facebook-owned company has violated competition law provisions through its “exploitative and exclusionary conduct” under the garb of the policy update. However, both WhatsApp and Facebook in their petition argued that a case about the new privacy policy was already being heard by the supreme court and the high court. And so, they said, the CCI need not order an investigation.