It had also demanded that similar norms be followed for all other forms of online communications, including searches, chats, social networking, file sharing etc.
Hmm, from here its only a few steps to the big companies buying this information from the government and threatening clueless people with warnings and more, à la RIAA in the states or HADOPI in France.
But my gut tells me that if such policing ever happens in India, it'll be much worse than in any of these countries.