India is to seek U.S. help to intercept chats from online platforms when police chiefs of both the countries meet in the national capital Wednesday, local media reported Tuesday.

India will ask the U.S. to share its technology on how to decrypt conversations over various services like Viber, Whatsapp, Skype, Wechat and Blackberry messenger, the 'Economic Times' newspaper reported, quoting an agenda note circulated by the Indian Home Ministry ahead of the two-day Indo-U.S. Police Chiefs conference.

"The availability of their web servers in India is required for legal interception of communications in real time for timely action by security and intelligence agencies," the agenda note said.

India has long been pressing the online chatting services to share decryption keys with the agencies to track down terrorists. Endi

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