Officials from India's Income Tax Department searched the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, weeks after it broadcast a controversial documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the British broadcaster said. The BBC broadcast a documentary in the U.K. titled 'India: The Modi Question' that examined Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat, where he was chief minister at the time.
Media personnel report standing outside a building housing BBC office in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Officials from India's Income Tax department began conducting searches Tuesday at the BBC's offices in the capital, New Delhi, three of the broadcaster's staff members told the Associated Press.
The investigation is "undemocratic" and "reeks of desperation and shows that the Modi government is scared of criticism," tweeted K.C. Venugopal, general secretary of the opposition Congress party. "We condemn these intimidation tactics in the harshest terms." Modi has denied allegations that authorities under his watch allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed, and the Supreme Court said it found no evidence to prosecute him. Last year, the court dismissed a petition filed by a Muslim victim questioning Modi's exoneration.
"We offered the Indian Government a right to reply to the matters raised in the series -- it declined to respond," the statement said.
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