India, May 9 -- Tech giant Google argued before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that the INR 936 Cr penalty levied by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on the company was "amorphous and overbearing".

According to Google's counsel, the charges pressed by CCI were purely based on assumptions. It had not shown any disobedience of norms and regulations by the US-based tech giant but addressed the operation of Google Play Billing System (GPBS) and Google Pay as dominance abuse, ET reported.

The counsel further argued that such allegations must be proved before the court. GBPS only collects service charges and "does not prevent other payment processors from venturing into the Indian payment processing market".

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