The Government of India established the Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-IN, as a means to monitor all incoming and outgoing Internet traffic from India. The primary purpose of CERT-IN is to handle Internet security and many institutions and agencies are allowed to call on it, including the home affairs ministry, courts, the intelligence services, the police and the head of the National Human Rights Commission. CERT-IN's stated main mission is to enhance the security of India's Communications and Information Infrastructure through proactive action and effective collaboration.
Currently, there is no established law as to which websites the government censors, or when. In the past, mainly pornographic and anti-establishment political websites have been blocked.
The government is also planning to set up a centralized mechanism at the eight landing stations for the country to block websites as and when it pleases.
Indian law enforcement has entered an agreement with the popular social networking site Orkut to track down what it deems to be "defamatory content".
There were reports about Blackberry devices being banned in India due to security concerns but after talks between the government and Research in Motion, the makers of Blackberry, the issues have been sorted out.
On November 1, 2007, The Economic Times reported that the Government of India was considering a ban on "posting of private and personal videos on internet and mobiles" to tackle cyber crime and piracy.
The Government has planned to setup national intelligence grid where it can track all call logs and internet data in real time even though it violates the fundamental rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India
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