New Delhi: The Income Tax Department is conducting raids at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. Information has been received from sources that the team of Income Tax Department is still in BBC office and the process of raid is going on. IT department officials are going through the papers in the BBC office.
Sources have told that all the employees present in the office have been asked not to use the phone. All the employees are locked in a room. No one can be contacted at the BBC office in Mumbai. However, so far there has been no official confirmation regarding this raid. Although according to IT sources, this is a survey.
Politics begins on BBC IT Raid
Politics has also started regarding the raid on BBC office. The Congress has tweeted and described the raid as an undeclared emergency. The Congress wrote in a tweet, “First BBC documentary came, it was banned… Now IT raid on BBC. Undeclared emergency.”
Recently BBC was in a lot of discussion about one of its controversial documentaries. There was an uproar in the whole country regarding the BBC documentary. The central government had called the documentary a propaganda piece. In a statement issued by the Central Government, it was said that this documentary shows a one-sided perspective, due to which the screening was banned.
However, despite the government’s ban, it was screened in many universities and colleges. There was a lot of ruckus in Delhi’s JNU regarding this.
BBC is a London based media outlet which has been doing journalism in India for many years. Recently, BBC had released a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat riots (2002), on which the Government of India lodged a strong objection.
