Anti Profiteering Under GST - An RTI Experience

Recently while one FMCG giant HUL declared to pass on the funds to the tune of some crores, another competing player P&G increased the price of their bestselling shampoo by INR 1 per piece in the garb of increased quantity of 20% (instead of pro-rata 33%), making me wonder what role APC player in such increase? While I had no audacity to find the relevant figures of these private sector giants, Right to Information Act, 2005 (‘RTI’) provided some leeway in getting at least some relevant figures to do a study at my own, because surely nobody supplied a full-fledged copy of APC study. A sum of 40 RTIs were filed before multiple Central Public Authorities from various sectors, many of them replied very gently and very promptly, some had to be shown the doors of Appellate Authority (a special thanks to Lexisnexis© for their brilliant commentary on RTI Act). Through succeeding paragraphs, an attempt has been made to find out the perception of APC amongst various organization, some shocking, some really admirable and some literally lamenting the harshness of GST system as whole.