New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a penalty of Rs.27.38 crore on Intel Corp for its "discriminatory" India-specific warranty policy for microprocessors, under which chips sourced from authorized distributors in the rest of the world were not covered, a practice that the regulator held as abuse of dominance.

Intel has 60 days to deposit the penalty amount, the order said.

In a statement, the CCI said the case was based on a complaint by Delhi-based Matrix Info Systems Pvt Ltd that said Intel's policy for India was amended in 2016, under which warranty requests for microprocessors in India would be entertained only when purchased from an authorized Indian distributor. For boxed microprocessors pur...