Bengaluru, Sept. 13 -- Online messaging platform WhatsApp told the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Friday that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had no evidentiary basis to conclude it had abused its dominant market position. The company argued that the regulator had neither conducted a user survey nor recorded user testimony, and had failed to obtain Daily Active User (DAU) data from rivals such as Signal and Telegram. In the absence of such evidence, WhatsApp said, the CCI could not substitute its own assumptions for user expectations. Senior counsel Arun Kathpalia, who appeared for WhatsApp, further pointed out that its 2016 privacy policy, introduced two years after the platform was acquired by Meta, had alrea...