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Amazon has been locked in a tussle
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with Future and accuses it of breaking contracts when it sold
its retail assets to Indian market leader Reliance last year.
Future denies any wrongdoing.
After the Singapore arbitrator put the deal on hold in October
2020 in an interim decision, Future had appealed to revoke it.
The panel has rejected that application, Future said in a
statement to Indian stock exchanges on Friday.
"The arbitration tribunal has passed a decision dismissing the
application to vacate the interim award," Future's statement
said. "The Company would be deciding on its future course of
action based on the legal advice and available remedies in law."
The dispute started after Future, India's second-largest
retailer with over 1,700 stores, entered into a deal last year
to sell its retail, wholesale, logistics and certain other
businesses to Reliance, after COVID-19 hit its operations hard.
Amazon had its sights on ultimately owning some of Future's
retail assets itself. It has argued a 2019 deal it had with a
Future unit contained clauses prohibiting the Indian group from
selling its retail assets to anyone on a "restricted persons"
list that included Reliance.
Amazon brought proceedings against Future before a Singapore
arbitration panel, and the dispute is also being fought in
various Indian legal forums.
(Reporting by Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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