Rediff journalist Priya Ganapati reports that on 28 April, the police commissioner's office in Mumbai sent a letter to ISPs in India telling them to block a website in the United States - http://www.hinduunity.org - and many of them have apparently complied. Hinduunity.org is run by Rohit Vyasmaan and it normally receives about 17,000 hits a day: "Sources at the Mumbai police commissioner's office said the directive was issued because the web site published inflammatory material against Islam... Vyasmaan says he is ready to fight the Mumbai police commissioner's move. 'We plan to actively seek support from various US and other world organisations,' he said. 'It is a direct gag order to silence the Hindu voice in India. It is a fact that the dictatorial regime in Saudi Arabia blocks HinduUnity.org, but to even [force] Internet service providers in our democratic nation is an insult to every citizen of India...'"
In September 2003 we reported that access in India to all Yahoo Groups was blocked because India's Computer Emergency Response Team ordered the blocking of one email list and the ISPs were unable to isolate that one list from all the others sent from the same set of IP addresses.