Govt of India would be asking soon all the internet content providers like Yahoo, Gmail and others to route all the emails through the govt servers even if the account holder is registered outside the country.

As these condition was arised due to certain instances where India security agencies couldn't have access to those accounts as they were registreted outside the country but they were operated in india.

On Tuesday February 21 at Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh office the high-level meeting took place, where the Department of Information Technology was asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content providers like Yahoo and Gmail.

During the meeting, director general from CERT-in informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes of the meeting said.

However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said.

"It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed from India should be routed through servers in India," it said, adding that the DIT would take up the matter with the content providers.

The need for this was felt after security agencies failed to access accounts of suspected terrorists of Indian Mujahideen during the surveillance period as the same had been opened in a European country.

One of the official sources said that, when the Dept of Information Technology India approached these providers they were been informed that some of the accounts cant be accessed has the server based was in a European nation.  (TS)