I'm honestly not surprised about this, but then again half the things I see in the news about India have me shaking my head and wondering what the **** is going in their government.
Sorry but that's no government - that's a group of thugs (yes, someone who is medieval in thinking - even if he or she is the leader of a country - is a thug, no matter how educated that person may be!)
I am really sad for the Indian players - hope they can get around that ban 
Hell, that's almost as bad as what the Chinese Government (another group of backwards-thinking thugs with nuclear weapons BTW) is doing, by monitoring the web and blocking of content -.- (even if EA pulled it before they could actually ban it - It's even worse as EA bows to the demands of those thugs and that's something I will never support -.-)
greetings LAX