Canadian firm, Research in Motion (RIM), which is the maker of the popular BlackBerry family of smartphones, has said that he authorities in India do not have access to encryption keys for accesing its secure corporate email and messaging services directly.

Some reports in the media had earlier suggested that the company has ceded to the government’s demand for a legitimate access to its service on legitimate grounds. The Indian telecom market represents one of the very few growing markets for the company, which is facing falling sales and revenues in almost all of its markets as users switch to devices powered by the Android platform or Apple devices.

The company has said that it cannot provide direct access to its enterprise email and messaging services as the company does not have the encryption keys. Some reports suggest that the Rim has provided an alternative way to allow the government to access data.

“RIM is providing an appropriate lawful access solution that enables India's telecom operators to be legally compliant with respect to their BlackBerry consumer traffic, to the same degree as other smartphone providers in India, but this does not extend to secure BlackBerry enterprise communications,” said Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM in a statement.

RIM has reportedly tied up with Verint, a company that can intercept all messages and emails between BlackBerry devices. This meets the demands of the Indian government and does not require the company to allow direct monitoring by the agency.