NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court stayed an order of the Competition Commission of India imposing a penalty of Rs 1 crore on U.S-based Google for allegedly failing to provide information in a probe into its alleged unfair trade practices in India.

A bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru also issued a notice to the CCI on the plea of the internet major and asked the panel to file its counter affidavit within four weeks.

The court also restrained the CCI from disclosing the confidential information related to the Google.

"Prima facie, we are of the view that whatever information the petitioner (Google) considers confidential shall not be disclosed," it said.

However, the court, for the time being, did not stay the ongoing probe against Google.

The court's direction came on a plea moved by Google which has alleged the CCI has 'wrongly' imposed a fine of Rs 1 crore on it and it was not heard before the order was passed by the panel.

Google has also said the order was a 'complete abuse' of authority by the CCI.

However, the CCI opposed the claim of the internet major that it was not heard saying the panel had accorded a 'through' hearing.

During the hearing, the court said "it is true that this (CCI) order contains something which is not correct."

The case before the CCI relates to the allegations that Google has been abusing its 'dominant position' in the internet search engine space.

It was also alleged that Google provides a number of vertical search services like YouTube, Google News, Google Maps etc and in order to promote its vertical search services, it mixes many of vertical results into organic search results.

The effect of such manipulation of results was that Google's vertical search partners will appear predominantly when an internet user searches for some information irrespective of whether the search results are most popular or relevant, said the allegations before the CCI.

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