Google and Facebook are among the 21 companies whose executives have been summoned to appear in person in a lower court in New Delhi on March 13 for allegedly hosting obscene and offensive.
"I have hope that there will be a balanced debate around, and finally the right thing would happen," said Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora.
The companies have challenged the subpoena in the Supreme Court. The next hearing is due on 2 February.
"We can not censor the web. You can not censor the ability of people to express all the world," Arora told a news channel in the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"You're not asking to censor the Internet in India, you are asking to censor the web around the world. The Web has no boundaries.
"I think the idea of all pre-censorship and everything will be clear that the main, to some extent, the corruption of economic growth in India and India vis-a-vis the world," he said.
During the last hearing in court, Google and Facebook had claimed that there was no way that the screen content before it was published on the Internet.
Google has also said the Indian subsidiary could not be held liable for an act of its parent.
Legal problems for companies like Orkut, Yahoo and YouTube is based on a petition filed by Vinay Rai, a resident of New Delhi, who has said that the tribunal is obscene that are in line with the Hindu deities, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Jesus Christ.
