Income Tax department conducts a ‘survey’ at the BBC office in Delhi, reports ANI.
The Supreme Court last week dismissed a PIL seeking a complete ban on the BBC and BBC India from operating from Indian territory in wake of airing the documentary titled, India: The Modi Question relating to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and M M Sundresh passed the order while hearing a plea filed by Vishnu Gupta, president of the Hindu Sena, and Beerendra Kumar Singh, a farmer.
India has blocked the BBC documentary that examines Prime Minister Narendra Modis role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities were scrambling to halt screenings of the program at colleges and restrict clips of it on social media, a move that has been decried by critics as an assault on press freedom.
