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BBC Raid: The BBC staff has been ordered to keep their phones shut.

As the raid was underway, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray took a dig at the ruling dispensation at the centre and said the I-T action shows that the voice of the dissent will be crushed. -- aaa

 NEW DELHI: The Income Tax department is said to be conducting raids at the at BBC's Delhi office, sources stated on Tuesday. The BBC’s office is located at Kasturba Gandhi Marg and as per reports in Zee News a team of 60-70 members of the IT department is currently carrying out ‘survey operations’ at the BBC Office. The employees and journalists have been asked to not use

"Cause & effect of raids on the BBC Office is quite obvious. GOI is brazenly hounding those who speak the truth. Be it opposition leaders, media, activists or anyone else for that matter. The gloves are off & there is a price one pays for fighting for truth," Mufti tweeted

A former deputy chief of bureau at BBC Delhi, journalist Satish Jacob, told The Wire that it is "most worrying is that the Modi government no longer cares about the optics of such an action."

"The Income Tax Authorities are currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, and we are fully cooperating. We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible," a BBC spokesperson said earlier in the day.

BBC Office raids: During the survey, the I-T department is looking at documents related to the business operations of the London headquartered public broadcaster and its Indian arm. -- aaa

BBC Office Raids Latest Update: The Income Tax survey operation began at 11 AM with I-T officials reaching the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. -- aaa

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The Editors Guild said that this trend of searches at media houses ‘undermines constitutional democracy’.