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Journalist N Ram, Advocate Prashant Bhushan and TMC MP Mahua Moitra moved Supreme Court earlier today challenging the ban on the documentary about 2002 Gujarat riots.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear plea against Centre's decision to ban the controversial BBC documentary
By using emergency powers to block the BBC documentary — which is critical of Narendra Modi’s handling of the Godhra riots in 2002, when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat — the Government of India has made it into an international story.
The protests in London came a week after the Indian government imposed a nationwide ban on the airing of the BBC documentary.
The BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots is currently blocked in India, while a plea in Supreme Court has challenged the ban.