Well, this is a very old issue
http
/www.engadget.com/2008/03/12/indian-blackberry-network-to-be-shut-down-unless-rim-allows-gove/
And I think the Government of India has been pretty lenient with RIM in allowing this sort of functioning for so long.
The government does not have the time , energy or resources to snoop or spy on it's citizens here, and the citizens are pretty much in favor of this either being banned or then opened, since it is finally for their own security.
In this country we have 1.15Billion citizens, out of which roughly 1 million use the blackberry.
For us it ain't that big a number but for a corporate telecommunication giant it is still a hell of a big number.
I personally feel that as a citizen of this country, I rather let the government snoop onto my stuff since I and a billion more people don't have anything to hide. But for the million out there , users who certainly seen to need that bit of security, I guess they do have something to hide, that's why the ruckus.
And for those who didn't know it, around the world, all your governments are already spying on you, we must be the last in that category to come into play.
And if you go through certain bits of the extradition treaty and the Terrorism Legislation between India and Canada, you'd be able to see , how difficult it would be to obtain the few mails and messages, that would be required to put a Terrorist behind bars or in fact get him to trial just in case the government had to access BB info from RIM.
So, it's pretty late, but , better late then never.