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India Tax Officials Raid BBC New Delhi Office Weeks After Modi Film
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February 14, 2023
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0:31Now PlayingIndian income tax officials visited the New Delhi and Mumbai offices of the BBC Tuesday, weeks after the British broadcaster aired a documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in the violence in his home state.
“The income tax authorities are currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and we are fully cooperating,” a BBC spokesperson in London said. “We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible.” She gave no other details.
An Indian government official with direct knowledge of the matter described the visit by tax officials as a survey but didn’t give any other information. The official asked not to be named citing the private nature of the matter.
The BBC had restricted broadcast of the two-part documentary in India. The country’s foreign ministry had dismissed the film, aired in January, as a “propaganda” piece. The government also asked social media giants Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube to take down videos and tweets about the film.
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