Yes, that whole thing turned out to be a bag full of gas. Turns out someone was just putting Indian flag stickers on the cheapest Chinese-made smartphones he could find and pass them off as new. There's always one guy...
The Indian smartphone market is extremely competitive currently. Pretty much every major brand in the world is trying to fight it out. There are 4 major price brackets - The 100 Dollar Smartphone, 250-300, 400-450 and then 700+, where Apple, Samsung and the Google Pixel are currently fighting it out.