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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on February 6 the PIL challenging the Centre's decision to ban the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots. Two separate petitions were filed against the ban on BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’.

Russian leader Maria Zakharova has accused the BBC of waging an information war as the controversy over one of its documentary rages on in India.

Slamming the BBC documentary, Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan said that those who wanted to see India in a hundred pieces are upset, so they indulge in such negative propaganda.

University students across India are either being suspended or being detained by the police, over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role during the deadly Gujarat sectarian riots in 2002.

EAM S Jaishankar was in Pune for the release of his English book

Over 200 students watch controversial film on PM Narendra Modi on nine laptops; TISS officials say no public screening happened

ABVP, the students told The Wire, had 'created a ruckus' a day ago and forcibly tried to enter the hostel rooms of those who allegedly watched the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi and the Gujarat communal violence of 2002.

In the midst of the BBC documentary row, many claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met with the producer of the controversial film.

Amid chants hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian diaspora protested against the controversial BBC documentary in London. The demonstrations were carried out at the British national broadcaster's headquarters and the Indian community in London even called for a boycott of BBC. ”The documentary is completely one-sided," one of the protesters on the site said.

The documentary alleges that Narendra Modi was 'directly responsible for a climate of impunity' that led to the violence against Muslims during the riots.