news/GOOGL/2023.01.19/India antitrust body denies Google's allegation it copied EU's Android order.txt

"We have not cut, copy and paste," N Venkataraman, a government lawyer representing the Competition Commission of India (CCI), told the top court.The comments came at a hearing in India's Supreme Court, where Google is seeking to block the CCI ruling. The body fined Alphabet Inc-owned  Google $161 million for exploiting its dominant position in Android, which powers 97% of smartphones in India, and asked it to change restrictions imposed on smartphone makers related to pre-installing apps.Google had challenged the directive saying it would hurt consumers and also its business, warning the growth of the Android ecosystem will stall if the far-reaching measures were to be implemented. (Reporting by Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Toby Chopra)