Delhi: The Income Tax Department raided the Delhi office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Sources said the employees' phones were seized. Employees have also been asked to leave the office and come home early. The Delhi team of the Income Tax Department is also monitoring the BBC premises in Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) area.
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The Congress party mocked the Center for conducting IT raids on BBC facilities. The Congress tweeted in Hindi, “First came the BBC documentary, which was banned. Now the BBC is being raided by IT. An undeclared emergency.”
BBC recently made headlines for its controversial documentary series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The documentary charts Prime Minister Modi's tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister during the 2002 Gujarat riots. His leadership during the riots and even the orders of the Supreme Court were questioned in contempt of the Prime Minister of India.
Speaking to news media, Blackman said,
The Ministry of External Affairs dismissed the documentary as a "propaganda piece" that lacked objectivity and displayed colonial attitudes. Meanwhile, UK MP Bob Blackman said the BBC documentary was grossly exaggerated and did not represent the views of the British government.
“The BBC does not represent the views of the British Government. The documentary is a huge undertaking. He added that the documentary was "the result of bad journalism, poorly researched and completely unjustified".
The government ordered Twitter and YouTube to block links to the documentary and banned people from posting snippets on social media, granting emergency powers under its Information Technology Act. It labeled the BBC's documentary as 'a piece of propaganda designed to advance a particularly disparaging narrative'.
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