The British media house has asked the members of the broadcast department to come to the offices today, while others have been told to work from home.
The searches by the Income Tax Department at the Mumbai and Delhi offices of British broadcaster BBC continued for a second day on Wednesday.
The searches, which the officials have dubbed a “survey operation”, began on Tuesday, less than a month after the BBC released a two-part documentary that examined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in the communal riots that took place in Gujarat in 2002.
Officials had told PTI on Tuesday morning that the survey was part of a tax evasion investigation into the business operations of the BBC in India. In a survey, the department only covers the business premises of a company and does not search homes and other locations of its promoters or directors.
On Wednesday, only members of the broadcast department were asked to come to the offices while other were told to work from home, NDTV reported, citing an email by the BBC to its employees.
