The controversy surrounding Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry services in India remains in the limelight in wake of lack of clarity over the issue. While reports say the Canadian firm has agreed to allow Indian security agencies access to its services, the firm said to Reuters that the access is only going to be partial in nature.

The partial access will be for BlackBerry’s Messenger Chat Services. But Reuters adds that the firm may allow the agencies increased access to its Enterprise Email Services as well.

The move follows the Indian government asking operators to put in place monitoring mechanisms for the service by August 31, 2010 or face banning of the services.

For RIM the situation is bit difficult to manage as providing increased access to the government agencies will certainly compromise on the security ensured to end-users. It had communicated to its about a million subscribers in India that “any negotiations over increased access to data transmitted between its devices would abide to four principles: that it was legal, that there would "no greater access" to BlackBerry services than other services, that there would be no changes in the security for Enterprise customers, and it would not make "specific deals for specific customers.”