It’s a hard lesson but definitely one I won’t forget. It’s really unfortunate that India doesn’t have any policies in place to protect crypto investors.
How do you expect the country to have a policy to protect a investor? This is not the stock market.
This is one place that is still the wild west and the government's stance on crypto is that "dont go into them, we dont like them". Hence you are on your own here and the same preventive measures we take on the international market, the global forum here, is applicable to them too.
This includes not using their hot wallets as a store for your coins.