BBC, the world-famous and credible source of News and information is today being raided by the Income Tax sector in India.
Talking about the case, the Income Tax department of India has now Raided the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), The Delhi office of the BBC is located in Kasturba Gandhi marg. According to the sources Phones of employees have been seized and Employees have also been asked to leave the office and go home early. After capturing Delhi’s office, the team is now monitoring the Mumbai Office.
The Income Tax Department is carrying out searches and raids across BBC premises over allegations of irregularities in international taxation and transfer pricing.
Taking a tool at the issue and targeting the Central Government, Congress tweeted upon the issue ad said,
The BBC came into the news recently due to their contentious documentary series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi– ‘India: The Modi Question’. The documentary charts Prime Minister Modi’s tenure as the Gujarat Chief Minister during the Gujarat riots in 2002. It also questioned his leadership during the riots.
The government ordered Twitter and YouTube to block any links to the documentary and forbade people from posting snippets on social media, invoking emergency powers under its information technology laws. It labeled the BBC’s documentary as a ‘propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative.’
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