I've been mining crypto since 2017. By the end of that year indian government started to become a little weird about crypto mining.
Companies like bitmain have stopped shipping to india as well since according to them the customs dont let your packages through.

However when looking up more information about this, most articles and forums date back to exactly 2017 and there has not been any further discussion or information after that.

There are a lot of people trying to sell miners in india on certain websites like indiamart. 99% of those people are very obvious scammers and dont even know the details about the miners they're selling.

History aside, i was willing to take the risk and i went ahead and ordered two Antminer s19 Pro's from a seller on Alibaba. The packages are supposed to be shipped to india via DHL.
The seller willingly showed pictures of the customs clearance forms along with the tax included invoices of other people who bought miners from india (their personal information like phone number, address and last name was blurred out).

I will keep everyone updated as to how my experience goes, but i have a few questions to ask:

1. Has anyone recently done this sort of thing of purchasing mining hardware from alibaba? if so then how did it go and what was your procedure of doing it?
2. Do you guys think it'll be possible to receive these miners?