It seems that RIM’s woes are compounding each week. Now the Indian Government has demanded that Blackberry offers a way to sniff the traffic going through the Blackberry network and the Instant Messaging that happens between Blackberry devices. The Security Establishment of India has expressed dismay at the lack of transparency of RIM and its reluctance to put up servers in India on the lines of its server deployments in the US and China.

The RIM company was allowed a deadline until 31st August to comply to the law or else the BES and Instant Messaging on Blackberry would be stopped altogether. As per unconfirmed reports, RIM has agreed to allow access to encrypted data and has also assured the Indian Government of complying to the security requirements.

It has been given an extended time of 2 months to comply to security provisions.

After intense competition from Android and iPhone, RIM seems to be having a lot of security related issues from multiple States.