Income Tax 'Surveys' BBC India
Income Tax Raids At BBC’s Delhi, Mumbai Office
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New Delhi, Feb 14: In what is widely seen as a retaliation by the BJP government for a documentary that is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Income Tax Department on Tuesday conducted a "survey operation" at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offices in the national capital and Mumbai, as part of a tax evasion investigation.
The Editors Guild said that this trend of searches at media houses ‘undermines constitutional democracy’.
Raids come after Indian government sought to block BBC documentary critical of Modi’s role in 2022 anti-Muslim riots.
Indian tax officials raided the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai today in an apparent reprisal for a two-part documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.