Internet Intermediaries in India

When we talk of internet service providers, most of them come under the purview of Section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2008 (“IT Act”) as intermediaries with respect to any particular electronic records, meaning any person who on behalf of another person receives, stores or transmits that record or provides any service with respect to that record and includes telecom service providers, network service providers, internet service providers, web hosting service providers, search engines, online payment sites, online-auction sites, online market places and cyber cafes, in short mostly every web based service provider under the sun.