Security guards close the gate of a building housing the BBC office in New Delhi, India.
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Security guards close the gate of a building housing the BBC office in New Delhi, India.
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MUMBAI — After three days ransacked BBC offices in IndiaIndia’s tax authority said it had found evidence of unpaid taxes and undeclared income.
Without naming the BBC, India’s finance ministry said its tax inspectors had found “significant evidence” of “disparities and contradictions” in the tax returns of “an international media company”. famous.”
Press freedom advocates around the world have criticized raids on the BBC this week — in which journalists and accountants were both questioned, and phones and laptops searched. their. Some slept in their offices for two nights.
The searches come weeks after the British broadcaster broadcast a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — and your government has banned it from being shown here.
The BBC says it is working with the authorities and that its journalists here will continue to report “without fear or bias.”
