India: Is Blackberry banned or authorized? Is BlackBerry, and its encrypted service for companies going to be banned in India? Since several months, because of security reasons and the fight against terrorism, New Delhi has been asking for total access to the emails that go through Blackberry, but the manufacturer refusesand affirms that for reasons of confidentiality, it doesn't even have the access codes for these messages. An ultimatum had been fixed by the Indian authorities: 31 January.