India’s antitrust regulator has ordered an investigation into Alphabet’s Google, alleging the U.S. tech large abused its dominant place within the nation’s on-line market by imposing unfair phrases and discriminatory practices in its well-liked app retailer.

The Competitors Fee of India stated in an order on Friday that Google violated a number of provisions of the nation’s antitrust legislation and requested its investigative arm to finish the probe inside 60 days. The order got here in response to data filed by a number of Indian app builders and business teams, lots of whom have additionally publicly raised considerations about what they allege is unfair practices by Google.

Google pulled greater than 100 apps from a set of 10 builders in India late final month after the Indian corporations “persistently not complied with its billing insurance policies.” The corporate later restored the apps, however the corporations must adjust to the Play Retailer billing insurance policies.

CCI’s allegations focus on Google’s billing system for in-app purchases and paid apps on its Play Retailer. The regulator stated Google is charging app builders an extreme and unfair service payment starting from 10% to 30%, which seems to be disproportionate to the financial worth of providers supplied by the corporate.

“The worth being charged by Google seems to be unfair in itself,” the regulator stated in its 21-page order. “Given this entire dependence of app builders on Google Play Retailer, the value being charged by Google seems to be unfair in itself.”

The fee additionally stated Google is implementing its insurance policies in a discriminatory method, offering arbitrary distinctions between apps that provide digital items and providers and people who supply bodily items and providers, despite the fact that they avail comparable services on the Play Retailer.

The watchdog’s determination is the newest headache for Google in India, its largest market by customers however one the place it has lengthy confronted allegations of anti-competitive practices. Final yr, the CCI imposed a report tremendous of $162 million on the corporate for abusing its dominant place within the Android smartphone market and requested the agency to vary its enterprise mannequin.

The U.S. large has beforehand defended its Play Retailer insurance policies, saying the service payment helps its investments in Android and Play Retailer, permitting it to supply builders with instruments and a world platform to entry billions of shoppers around the globe.