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Reliance has 1,100 supermarkets, while Future has around 1,500. For its part, Amazon has invested $6.5 billion in India. At stake is whether Amazon can become a bigger force in a $900 billion retail market, with 1.3 billion consumers, than Reliance.
The top court added that it would hear the matter on February 23 "without any adjournment."
Future, in a new court filing at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asked judges to order its lenders and the country's central bank to grant more time to execute the sale, and not be classified as a defaulter.
Amazon’s petition is scheduled to be heard by a two-member bench comprising Justice M Venugopal and V P Singh of the Principal bench.
The HC said that after the Competition Commission of India (CCI) order against Amazon, case prima facie in favour of Future.