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Always find it a bit odd that in a tech forum, people take the effort to type something but find it difficult to provide a link.
VPN servers were already effectively barred from hosting in India with the requirement to maintain all logs in 2022. This is the next step where they will eventually ban the apps and websites for most VPN providers.
But then, it will still be possible to use Wireguard, OpenVPN apps as long as the providers provide the to necessary config, if sideloading is considered risky. Or else it is quite easy to set your own on a low end VPS.