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Nahta (Members), closed a matter under Section 26 (2) of the Competition Act, 2002 against the OPs: Ola; Uber; Uber B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Uber Technologies Inc., San Francisco, USA for alleged contravention of provisions of Sections 3 of Competition Act, 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The informant was stated to be primarily aggrieved by the pricing mechanisms adopted by the aforesaid OPs. It was alleged by him that the algorithmic pricing adopted by the OPs took away the liberty of individual drivers to compete with each other amounting to <strong>\u2018price fixing\u2019 <\/strong>in contravention of provisions of Section 3 of Competition Act, 2002. Further, algorithm pricing had taken away the freedom of the riders and drivers to choose the other side on the basis of price competition and both have to accept the price set by the algorithm. OPs act as \u2018Hub\u2019 where \u2018spokes\u2019 (competing drivers) collude on prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Competition Commission drew its observations on keeping the three primary allegations of the informant in mind, i.e., <strong><em>Firstly,<\/em><\/strong> Cab Aggregators use their respective algorithms to fix price under Section 3(3)(a) read with Section 3(1) of the Competition Act for every ride and do not allow the drivers to compete on prices. <strong><em>Secondly,<\/em><\/strong> Price fixing acts as an imposition of minimum resale price maintenance agreement under Section 3(4)(e) of Competition Act, 2002 between the Cab Aggregators and their drivers. <strong><em>Thirdly, <\/em><\/strong>Owing to information asymmetry, i.e., Cab Aggregators possessing considerable personalized information about every rider have been able to price discriminate to the disadvantage of the riders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commission by throwing light upon the concept of <strong>hub and spoke<\/strong> in a conventional sense stated that it \u201crefers to the exchange of sensitive information between competitors through a third party that facilitates the cartelistic behaviour of such competitors and it <strong>does not apply to the facts of the present case<\/strong>. In furtherance to the second allegation regarding resale price maintenance, the commission held it to be not tenable as OPs perform a centralised aggregation function that rests on the algorithmic determination of prices which brings no resale of services. Commission also observed that existence of an agreement, understanding or arrangement, demonstrating the meeting of minds is a <em>sine qua non <\/em>for establishing contravention under Section 3 of Competition Act, 2002; which in the present case does not appear neither between the Cab Aggregators and their respective driver nor between the drivers <em>inter-se<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus the Commission dealt with above said allegations by stating that in its view no case of contravention of Section 3 was made out and hence concluded its order. 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