  Recently three foreign academic publishers filed a case of copyright
infringement against Sci-Hub and LibGen before the Delhi High Court and prayed
for complete blocking these websites in India. In this context, this paper
attempted to assess the impact that blocking of Sci-Hub may have on Indian
research community. The download requests originating from India on a
daily-basis are counted, geotagged and analysed by discipline, publisher,
country and publication year etc. Results indicate that blocking Sci-Hub in
India may actually hurt Indian research community in a significant way.
