Indian department of telecommunications (DoT) has instructed Blackberry maker, RIM to setup their servers to host email in India.

The decision was taken at a meeting between DoT officials, security agencies, company executives, Canadian High Commission representatives and telecom operators.

The Indian Government feels that this decision will enable security agencies to monitor e-mails sent by Blackberry users.

RIM’s BlackBerry device offers many services to its subscribers, out of which all are traceable except for email, which uses push technology, sent between one BlackBerry devices to another BlackBerry device.

At present, BlackBerry’s email traffic in India is hosted on RIM’s Canadian servers, which cannot be lawfully intercepted by security agencies.

If RIM agrees to the DoT request, then company have to shift all data traffic originating from Indian mobile networks to servers located in India.

The BlackBerry services in India are being offered by Bhart Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Reliance Communications.