Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

The Court in India ordered the blocking of the encrypted proton Protonian provider E -Add across the country.

On Tuesday, the Karnataki High Court ordered the Indian Government to block the proton mail, a popular email service known for improved security, after a legal appeal filed by M Moser Design Associates based in New Delhi. The local company claimed that his employees received E -pods with obscene and vulgar content sent through the Proton Mail.

In a Listening on Tuesday flowed on YouTubeThe justice of M Nagaprazanna ordered the Indian government to “block the proton mail, having the observation made during the order”, according to the 2008 Information Technology Act.

In your own complaint Submitted in January, a company based in New Delhi has invited the regulation or blocking of the proton mail in India, as the email service allegedly refused to share details about the sender of the supposedly offensive e-mails, despite the police complaint.

An additional lawyer, Aravind Kamath lawyer, representing the Indian government, earlier told the High Court that the Government could have a limited role in resolving the applicant’s problem and suggested that the criminal courts could seek the necessary information from the Swiss authorities since the applicant had filed an appeal.

The ProTon Mail Block has yet to come into force, based on Techcrony’s checks of the Proton Mail website in India. Techcrunch contacted the proton mail for comment and will update this story if we come forward.

This is the latest legal shower that faces the proton mail in India, and the second verdict has been aimed at blocking the encrypted services of E -Business in the country.

Last year the Southern State Police Directorate Tamil Hope had sought to block Proton Mail after it was found that the E -— The Service was used to send bomb threat to local schools. The IT Ministry of the Indian Government allegedly informed Internet service providers to block the proton mail at the request of the law implementation. However, Swiss federal authorities intervened to prevent Blocking the proton mail enters into force.

“Blocking access to the proton mail simply prevents citizens from complying with the law to communicate safely and not prevent Cyber-criminals from sending threats to another email service, especially if the perpetrators are located outside India,” Proton said at the time.

Nevertheless, in October 2024, a High Delhi Court ask State Police and the Indian Government Ministry to investigate the alleged use of Protonian mail throughout the country. Kamath, an additional general lawyer, assured the High Court in Karnataki that he would examine the observations of the High Court in Delhi on the use of proton mail India.