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Defending the plaintiff, Senior Advocate Harish Salve submitted the complaint claiming that the two-part documentary defames India and its judiciary alike

The Delhi High Court has issued a defamation notice to BBC over the controversial documentary on PM Modi called ‘India: The Modi Question’.

The NGO in its plea stated that BBC's documentary casts a slur on the reputation of India, its judiciary as well as PM Modi.

The petitioner argued that the content shown in the documentary against RSS and VHP was done with malacious intent and intended to defame the organisations and its workers., India News, Times Now

The complainant - a BJP leader - has said the controversial BBC documentary

Six employees, including one of the directors of BBC India, have been questioned so far, officials said. In February, the I-T Department had carried out surveys at BBC premises over what it alleged was ‘non-compliance’ with transfer pricing rules and vast diversion of profits.

The move is weeks after the income tax department ‘surveyed’ UK’s renowned public broadcaster’s offices in India. The ‘surveys’ were slammed globally as they were seen to be linked with a BBC documentary on the Gujarat violence of 2002, when Narendra Modi was CM.

Amid a crackdown on ‘Waris Punjab De chief and Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, the Twitter account of BBC News Punjabi language was withheld in India by authorities.

The BBC has already been into the eye of storm in India over its documentary The Modi Question on the 2002 Gujarat riots. 

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly raised the issue of the BBCs tax obligations during a meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Delhi on Wednesday.