Unsurprising for anyone that has done business in India. This is not a dig on Indian people, but the society they operate in is incredibly incredibly corrupt, on a scale which is basically unthinkable to anyone who hasn't been directly exposed to it. I cannot imagine doing business of the precision that Apple is trying to achieve in India. There are many other lower precision arrangements that can be worked out in India, but something like an iPhone seems impossible without a complete sea change in how Indian society operates at every level.
Anybody who has done business in India is never surprised by the number of spam, scam boiler rooms, and other nefarious global criminal organizations operating in India. It's all part of the same pervasive corruption within Indian society.