See, that's how they get you. Byzantine laws, so everyone is a criminal (citizen or corporation), and then they can crush you whenever you don't kowtow to their demands.

It's not exactly something to celebrate.

I mean, maybe, just possibly, maybe, perhaps, who knows, Google is doing something deliberately shady and evil here and the government just happened to notice just days after they told some censorship people to sod off. And if you believe that, I also have this lovely bridge which I would like to sell you.

You're an enabler.

Even if they really are, its just a bad move politically to take action a week after they got rejected by Google. Given the number of people evading taxes in India the amount they get by going after Google will be miniscule (comparatively).

Indian government has designed laws that can prove anyone to be a criminal. Most of the laws haven't seen any reforms since the British formed them. IT is one field that has grown so much in India because government never planned for it neither made any laws. Now things have changed. Government wants to extract rent from every business in the country.

Departments like Income Tax are completely discredited. Given a choice as a citizen I will trust the roadside thug more than a person who calls himself income tax officer.