Weeks after release of a documentary critical of PM Modi, IT officials conducted a survey at BBC India office in Delhi, Mumbai. They seized the mobile phones of officials and over 100 employees were held back at Delhi office
The Income Tax Department has raided the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai following the allegations of international taxation and transfer pricing against the UK-based broadcaster
The I-T officials are also monitoring the BBC office in Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). Those in the BBC office in Mumbai’s Khar were also sent home
The BBC documentary was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in 2002 Gujarat riots when he was CM
UK MP Bob Blackman has said that the BBC documentary on Modi is "completely exaggerated, BBC does not represent views of the British government. The documentary is a hatchet job”
Following the release of BBC documentary on PM Modi, the Ministry of External Affairs trashed it while calling it a "propaganda piece that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset”
The Income Tax Department on Tuesday said BBC was found in "persistent non-compliance" of tax norma, making it a "repeat offender"
BBC has been non-compliant under transfer pricing rules; persistent and deliberately violative of transfer pricing norms; and delibrately diverted significant amount of the profits, says tax dept
Earlier this month, Supreme Court quashed a PIL by Hindu Sena president alleging that “the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question is the result of a deep conspiracy against the global rise of India and its PM”
Congress called tax surve on BBC as "undeclared emergency", while BJP recalled Indira Gandhi's actions during Emergency