you have to wonder just how much such rulings help anyone. - practically nobody uses the service in the country (especially when dealing with hundreds of milli

you have to wonder just how much such rulings help anyone. - practically nobody uses the service in the country (especially when dealing with hundreds of millions connected on the internet), and for some this might have a streissand effect. - those using such services for nefarious reasons would have little to no reason to abide by it. IT law enforcement is already very ineffective as it is, and would only be used as a lever when dealing with cases the administration has special interest in. - this is not really a matter of encryption but about data sharing arrangements with other countries (as correctly pointed out in the comments). funnily enough it is against the law to refuse decryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act%2C_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act%2C_...).