India’s income tax department is conducting searches of the BBC’s offices in the country’s capital New Delhi, according to the Associated Press.
India’s income tax department is conducting searches of the BBC’s offices in the country’s capital New Delhi, according to the Associated Press.
Three BBC staffers informed AP about the searches, the agency said. Meanwhile, a team from the tax department also surveyed the BBC’s Mumbai offices, per the Press Trust of India quoting unnamed sources.
A BBC spokesperson told Variety: “The Income Tax Authorities are currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and we are fully cooperating. We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible.”
The searches come in the wake of the Indian government blocking the controversial two-part BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question.
