BBC Income tax raid India
BBC is back in the news on not for a new documentary but for an income tax rade.
BBC offices have been raided by the Indian Income tax department the rades were conducted in Delhi in Mumbai the authorities is not calling them raids they says it's just service
what for to investigate taxi vision a team of 15 official search the offices in Delhi in Mumbai they are looking for documents related to the BBC business operations in India there are alligations of irregularities this relates to international taxation and transfer pricing.
Reports says the mobile phones of employees seaside those in office what told to return home those at home told not to come to office the reports to get a storm on social media remember this action comes days after the BBC broadcast documentary it relates to the 2002 Gujarat rites and implicates prime minister Narendra Modi who was then the chief minister of Gujarat the documentary came in for a lot of criticism the prime minister the UK said he did not agree with the characterization of Modi The Us Government dismissed it and India Blocked it documentary came in for a lot of criticism the prime minister of the UK said he did not agree with the characterization of Modi the US government dismisted in India blocked it today's it survey comes in the wake up this route and opposition parties are criticizing it they say the government is being vindicated which is not surprising this is what the opposition is meant to do.
But here something the Opposition Leader may not bring up the BBC had a trouble history with India it was launched as a mouth piece of colonial British and long after the British left the broadcaster perpetuated the biasis the BBC has been repeatedly expel from India every time it has the Congress was in power in 1970 they broadcast 2 documentaries Calcutta and Phantom India both by French film maker they showed India in a bad light then Congress government banned the documentaries and expelled the BBC from India for 2 years then in 1975 in Indira Gandhi imposes Emergency a statement signed by 41 Congress MP's accused the BBC for Broadcasting anti India stories they are the government to not allow the BBC to report again from Indian soil This time BBC is on the documentary investigation.
Wait for the full story to emerge and read some history in the meantime.
