New Delhi: The Income Tax Department (IT) is conducting raids on the BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai.
The IT Department team is still in the BBC office and the process of raiding is going on. It department officials are scanning the papers in the BBC office.
Sources have said that all the employees present in the office have been asked not to use the phone.
All employees have been kept in the same room. No one can be contacted at the BBC office in Mumbai. However, there is no official confirmation about this raid so far.
The Congress has tweeted and described the raid as an undeclared emergency. The Congress wrote in the tweet, “First the BBC documentary came, it was banned … Now the BBC has been raided by IT. Undeclared emergency.”
Recently, the BBC was in a lot of discussion about one of its controversial documentaries. There was a ruckus in the whole country about the BBC documentary.
The central government had described the documentary as a propaganda piece. In a statement issued by the central government, it was said that this documentary shows 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 JNU, Delhi.